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Korea Investment Corp., South Korea‘s sole sovereign wealth fund, pledged to increase its exposure to alternative assets to 21 percent by 2024, from 16.1 percent as of May 2021, its Chief Executive Officer Jin Seung-ho told reporters Thursday. The institutional investor, managing $183.1 billion i...
The company said in addition to the size and diversity in green bonds, it has also ramped up its efforts to prevent a ESG bond issuer’s misuse of green bonds to ‘greenwash’ its image. Hyundai Capital said it has set up a Sustainability Financing Framework, which has been certified by DNV-GL, a g...
Forty South Korean investors were found to have invested a total of $16.8 billion in securities issued by thermal coal-related companies worldwide as of January, data exclusively obtained by The Korea Herald showed Feb. 25. The figure highlights calls for more aggressive climate action on the pa...
Tension between the nation’s financial regulator and the central bank are escalating over which institution should hold a supervisory authority in the area of online payment settlements emerging as a key financial transaction method in the era of digital economy. Payment settlement is the proces...
An exchange-traded fund operated by the Vietnam branch of South Korea‘s leading asset management firm Mirae Asset Global made a market debut in the Southeast Asian country‘s stock market, the company said on Dec. 9. The so-called Mirae Asset VN30 Exchange Traded Fund is designed to invest in 30...
Mirae Asset Global Investments, one of South Korea’s largest asset management firms, said on Dec. 1 that it won a US court case against Chinese insurer Anbang Insurance Group over legal disputes involving a $5.8 billion deal to acquire luxury hotels. The Delaware Court of Chancery rejected Anban...
While South Korea’s benchmark index hit an all-time record of 2,633.45 on Friday, a global market gauge also reached a new high, suggesting the country’s stock market may be overvalued. The Buffett indicator -- US investor Warren Buffett’s preferred market indicator -- marked 112.7 percent as o...
NH Financial Group Chairman Kim Kwang-soo has officially been tapped to lead the Korea Federation of Banks, a representative body of commercial banks, officials said on Nov. 27. The KFB board of directors unanimously approved Kim’s nomination as its 14th chairman during a general meeting held ea...
South Korean midsized automotive parts maker Myoung Shin Industry said on Nov. 25 that it is looking to raise as much as 91.2 billion won ($82.3 million) from its initial public offering on the nation’s benchmark Kospi early next month. “We are looking forward to raise our overseas sales from t...
Woori Financial Group said on Nov. 25 that it has set up a 200 billion won ($180 million) fund to invest in social infrastructure projects, called the “Woori Global Infra New Deal Fund.” In September the government announced its New Deal Fund, a state-led fund worth 20 trillion won aimed at inv...
South Korean banking groups are set to tighten lending rules for overdraft accounts, lowering borrowing limits amid government efforts to put a brake on the nation’s fast-growing household debt, industry data showed on Nov. 20. The five major commercial banks here -- KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori,...
The price of largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin reached a recent high dating back nearly three years, rising more than 4 percent within 24 hours amid investors’ rising demand for safe investments, digital currency data showed on Nov. 18. According to US-based cryptocurrency data provider CoinMarketC...
Despite the pandemic increasing the risk of doing so, institutional investors in South Korea said they would venture into unfamiliar nonbank financing bets, such as private debt funds. Representatives of Korean investors said last week at PDI Seoul Forum Virtual Experience 2020 that they are dev...
Financial affiliates of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group announced on Nov. 12 that they would halt investment projects linked to coal-power businesses as part of their efforts to run operations in an environmentally responsible manner. Samsung’s insurance arms Samsung Life Insur...
South Korea’s leading online bank Kakao Bank has launched a procedure to pick lead underwriters for its public initial offering, according to industry sources on Nov. 11. The affiliate of mobile messenger firm Kakao has sent a request for proposal to domestic and global brokerages to explain the...
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