South Korean institutions are increasingly investing overseas in a bid to resolve their asset-liability mismatches.
The Korean central bank has chosen a group of transition management providers as asset owners push for greater transparency on transition costs.
They are urged to court sovereign wealth funds in frontier markets as established players increase in-house expertise. All the same, SWF volumes have tripled in five years.
Hong Taeg-ki leaves Bank of Korea for Korea Investment Corporation.
Korea Investment Corporation promotes one of its own, Don Lee, its head of alternative investments. He succeeds Scott Kalb, with the appointment effective this week.
Scott Kalb caps his three-year term at Korea Investment Corporation with a $200 million China QFII quota. He can expect to win a good role in Asia if he wants to stay in the ...
The $45 billion sovereign wealth fund surprises the market with a pick from the private sector with ties to Allianz Global Investors, Hana Bank and Korea Exchange Bank.
Four sovereign wealth funds held direct talks in Moscow over their participation in a government-backed Russia investment fund, AsianInvestor has learned.
The Korea Investment Corporation is looking for more deals in private equity, real estate and hedge funds as its seeding is set to grow.
Like ships passing in the night, pension funds from both sides of the Pacific are looking to increase investments on the far shore.
Pension funds and insurers in South Korea are pleased with their response to the global financial crisis and more confident about future investment plans, including those for ...
VIDEO: There’s also an illiquidity premium returning for alternative assets, so it’s a good time to look at alternatives, says Scott Kalb, Korea investment ...
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VIDEO: If you've got 'dry powder', as do many sovereign wealth funds, then why not invest in alternatives, says Scott Kalb of Korea Investment Corporation.
Scott Kalb of the Korea Investment Corporation plans to nearly triple allocations to alternatives as he perceives we are in the early stage of a positive cycle for distressed debt.
And the trend towards greater transparency continues, with the release of the first annual report from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Korea Investment Corporation outlines some of its ambitions for 2010, which include finding ways to attract global managers to set up onshore.
The former chief investment officer of the Korea Investment Corporation begins trading his Asian credit hedge fund in Singapore.
Guan Ong, now running a credit hedge fund, says Asian fixed income will offer more to institutional investors facing hedging challenges.
The CIO of the Korea Investment Corporation explains why the Merrill Lynch deal will work out, as well as his views on hedge fund fees and other topics.