The new head of Korea Investment Corporation is moving to implement reforms at the $90 billion sovereign wealth fund after his predecessor violated internal guidelines.
Choo Heung-Sik has made the jump from head of reserve management at the Bank of Korea to overseeing investments at the country's sovereign wealth fund.
Choo Heung-Sik, head of the central bank’s reserve management group, is keeping an open mind to alternative opportunities and sees emerging markets as increasingly important.
The central bank has drawn a blank in its first recruitment effort for a global corporate bond head and has restarted the process. But its new CIO is set to start within a month.
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 QFII licence.