16th December, 2025
South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung administration is set to launch a new sovereign wealth fund in 2026 with a view to tackling long-term issues of weak growth, rising economic polarisation, and intensifying global competition in advanced industries.
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4th December, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is deploying only around 20% of its capital abroad, but within that slice, Developed Asia has become a small but strategically important cluster.
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9th September, 2025
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a +4.08% money-weighted return in the first half of 2025, generating KRW 49.8 trillion (US$36.9 billion) of investment income.
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4th July, 2025
The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and South Korea's only sovereign wealth fund is at a crucial turning point.
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12th February, 2025
South Korea’s US$827 billion National Pension Service (NPS) is making some of its boldest investment moves yet.
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1st November, 2023
Among S. Korean pension funds, the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is known for having modernized its approach to asset allocation and for having boosted AuM and returns in the past few years. We had the great pleasure of speaking with the engineer of such change as the fund’s CIO between 2016 and 2022, Mr. Dong Hun Jang, about the country’s pension system, the fund’s history, and the changes he pushed for during his tenure.
7th September, 2022
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has appointed a new chair as the fund faces a set of challenges amid an increasingly difficult economic outlook.
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29th August, 2022
One of the world’s largest pension schemes, South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), released on Monday its latest results and the numbers are worrisome. In the first half of 2022, the investment manager had an investment return of -8.0%, translating into a loss of US$ 57 billion for South Korean pensioners.
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30th May, 2022
The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) posted an annual return of 9.13% for 2021 with assets under management reaching US$205 billion – exceeding the US$200 billion mark in the first time in its 16 year history.
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27th January, 2022
South Korea’s mammoth public pension fund, the US$776 billion National Pension Service (NPS), upset domestic retail investors yet again by leading the market in dumping domestic stocks.
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6th September, 2021
Korea’s National Pension Service is smashing benchmarks with solid returns, but is set to face a challenge in its efforts to hike allocations to alternatives from 10% to 15% by 2025.
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3rd September, 2021
Korea Investment Corporation’s (KIC) new chief executive Seoungho Jin has shaken up his top team as he looks to ramp up investment in private markets by 2027.
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