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Asset Owners
Bank of Korea holding out for QFII quota
The central bank is hoping to invest in Chinese securities as early as the first half of this year after becoming the first of three Korean government entities to receive a ...
27 January 2012
Asset Owners
Korea’s military pension fund names new CIO
The $7.2 billion fund hires Seok-Hwan Park, who has worked for Barclays Global Investors in Hong Kong, to run asset management and investments after his predecessor resigned.
19 January 2012
Alternatives
Millennium Managers eyes Korea onshore business
As South Korea prepares for its first generation of onshore hedge funds, a number of global firms are understood to be preparing to apply for licences.
17 January 2012
Asset Owners
Korea’s NPS sets targets after winning QFII permit
The $300 billion pension fund is hopeful it will receive a quota by the second half of this year to begin investing in mainland Chinese securities and is busy preparing internally.
10 January 2012
Markets
Bank of Korea seeks CIO and bond investment head
South Korea's central bank is reorganising its reserve management team as it awaits the outcome of an application for a QFII quota of up to $300 million.
21 December 2011
Alternatives
Korean hedge funds face challenges attracting assets
The country’s financial regulator has approved 13 firms to run hedge funds, but the current environment is hardly ideal for raising capital.
14 December 2011
Asset Owners
Korea’s BOK names head of reserve management group
The central bank has opted for an internal promotion, contrary to initial indications about an external hire. Choo Heung Sik may start in this new role as early as this month.
22 November 2011
Alternatives
Why prime broking ambitions may cost Korea's big five
Pending regulation will allow the biggest securities firms to reinvent themselves as investment banks and engage in securities financing and other prime services – but ...
14 November 2011
Markets
Move by Korea’s FSC to lift short-selling ban gets mixed reaction
Some market participants say the regulator should have waited for greater calm amid eurozone fears, but brokerages planning hedge fund launches are happy.
11 November 2011
Alternatives
Korea Post seeks secondary PE funds
The $50 billion savings fund requests pitches in by October 31 to allocate a minimum of $30 million to a secondary private-equity fund.
24 October 2011
Asset Owners
A new general for Korea's military pension fund
Three-star general Kim Jin-hoon takes charge of South Korea’s $7 billion Military Mutual Aid Association.
19 October 2011
Asset Owners
Korea Teachers Pension Fund names new chairman
The KTPF, which this year was chosen by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance as the best-performing Korean pension fund, appoints education veteran Byun Chang-Yull as chairman ...
30 September 2011
People Moves
Korean pension fund unveils new chairman
Ahn Yang Ho takes up a three-year term with the Government Employees Pension Service and vows to improve communication to inspire confidence in the fund.
26 September 2011
Alternatives
NPS, CIC seek to acquire Aussie turnpike
Horizon Roads, a consortium of global institutional investors, plans to take a stake in a Melbourne toll road as its developer exits the project.
21 September 2011
Asset Owners
Bank of Korea to hire reserves management head
The central bank of the Republic of Korea, with $312 billion in reserves, has decided to make its first senior investment hire from the market.
15 September 2011
Asset Owners
Korea Post denies bond mandate decision
The savings bureau at Korea Post says reports of a fixed-income mandate decision having already been made are wrong.
14 September 2011
Markets
CEO of newly merged Korean AM seeks foreign managers
At the helm of what is soon to be Korea’s sixth largest fund house, Shin-Woo Kang says he wants to work with overseas managers in product development and sub-advisory.
5 September 2011
Markets
Korea welcomes cooling move after ETF trading triples
The government moves to calm a surge in trading for leveraged ETFs this month by banning credit lending temporarily. Market consensus is in favour.
30 August 2011
Alternatives
Samsung Securities to start prime broking next January
The company says it has no need to raise funds to meet investment bank capital requirements and will benefit from a massive infrastructure build-up in research and sales.
3 August 2011
Alternatives
Korea Post’s savings division plans alternatives push
The $52 billion arm of Korea Post, traditionally a conservative investor, needs to add risk to its portfolio as local bond markets lose their appeal.
20 July 2011
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