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Korea Exchange announced on Thursday that it will list Samsung Asset Management's "KODEX Global Obesity Treatment Top 2 Plus exchange-traded fund (E...

Apollo Asset Management, Warburg Pincus and Lexington Partners are South Korean institutional investors’ most preferred private equity firm...

Digital infrastructure, such as data centers, towers and smart meters, will be the hottest infrastructure asset this year for South Korean limited par...

Global private equity firms, which recover their principal investment in South Korea, sell their assets for 2.5 times the purchase price on average,...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. on Monday issued $600 million worth of foreign currency bonds, marking the first foreign bond sale by a South Korean brok...

Global X ETFs, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds, will liquidate 19 ETFs, including 11 China-exposed funds, next month to stop th...

The vast majority of creditors to Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C) have agreed to start debt restructuring for the tro...

Mirae Asset Group founder and Chairman Park Hyeon-joo will donate a 25% stake in Mirae Asset Consulting Co., the firm at the top of the financial se...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) enjoyed record assets and profit in 2023 as the world’s third-largest pension fund reported...

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), South Korea’s state-owned utility company grappling with mounting losses, has secured additional funds of ...

On Nov. 20, HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, issued new 200 million shares after its two largest shareholders -- Korea Development ...

ESR KendallSquare REIT, overseeing 18 advanced logistics centers across South Korea, adeptly handled challenges in the real estate sector this year....

South Korean investment firm Glenwood Private Equity Co. is solidifying its leading position with a carve-out strategy in the domestic market, execu...

Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd., a UK private equity advisory firm, has tapped sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) former PE he...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, has decided to sell its plants in Russia for only about $100 to a local company although it has...

US private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC said on Tuesday it will establish a joint venture in South Korea via its Asia real estate fund to invest i...

KKR & Co. Inc. has promoted Keith Kim (Kim Yang-han), managing director at the private equity giant’s Seoul office, to partner.Kim, who ma...

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group has acquired Sharekhan Ltd., India’s 10th-largest brokerage firm, to enh...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea posted an 8.66% investment return from January to September of this year with assets under management ...

Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) posted a 7.12% return on total asset investments in the first eight months of this year, recouping about 40% of last ye...

Eastspring Asset Management Korea Co., the Korean operation of Prudential plc’s asset management unit, is up for sale for about 100 billion wo...

Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, has launched an ETF in the US, the first of its kind t...

Investors should carefully watch out for the probability of recession and how it will impact asset allocation strategies next year, experts said at ...

Saudi Aramco’s $7 billion petrochemical project in South Korea, in what would be its largest-ever investment in the country, has hit a stumbli...

Mirae Asset Securities Co., South Korea’s largest brokerage house, plans a public tender of assets held by debt-laden Goldin Financial Holding...

Barings LLC has appointed Chong Hak (John) Park as head and sole representative director of its South Korean asset management arm, effective Jan. 1,...

Mirae Asset Securities Co., South Korea’s largest brokerage firm, found in June that a senior manager at its alternative investment division h...

Seoul-based brokerage firm Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) has raised $400 million in new bonds to strengthen its investments in the US ...

Digital assets are important components of change in the infrastructure investment landscape today and are as essential as water and electricity, ex...

South Korean institutional investors said they are preparing for prolonged high interest rates and market uncertainty, building mid- to long-term pl...