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South Korean asset manager Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management said on Sept. 18 that it would beef up efforts to take climate change into account in its asset management business, as part of its green finance and impact investing. Under its climate action declaration released Friday, the joint v...
Representatives of South Korean institutional investors said Tuesday they were increasingly tapping into distressed asset classes in their capital deployment to real estate assets, as the novel coronavirus disruption in the market is upping the appetite for the two extremes: very safe and very risk...
Amid heated competition over public subscriptions in Korea’s initial public offering market, the local top internet-only bank’s valuation on the pre-IPO market has soared, exceeding the combined market cap of the four major financial groups here. According to local industry sources on Sept. 16,...
Financial intelligence firm PEI said Sunday it plans to host its PERE Investor Forum: Seoul Virtual Experience 2020 on Tuesday. The virtual event is designed to connect South Korean investors with global fund managers and investment advisers to get a glimpse of the future capital flows in the re...
Kakao Games continued its bullish run on the Kosdaq market, with shares spiking by a daily permissible limit of nearly 30 percent for a second consecutive day on Sept. 11. As soon as trading began, the company’s stock price reached 81,100 won ($68.22) per share, up 18,700 won or 29.97 percent fr...
Korean asset management houses are facing a ripple effect from London-based investor H2O Asset Management‘s decision to halt fund withdrawals for four weeks and to draw up measures to seek redress from the fund freeze, according to an announcement on Sept. 8. VI Asset Management and Kiwoom Asset...
Health and beauty store Olive Young said on Sept. 4 it was preparing to apply for an initial public offering in 2022. CEO Koo Chang-gun announced the decision on the company’s in-house communication app “Olive Lounge” on Wednesday where he said work to file for an IPO in 2022 would start next ...
With Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind K-pop sensation BTS pursuing a public initial offering next month, investors appear to be increasingly drawn to South Korea‘s entertainment stocks. Some market analysts also painted a rosy picture of the scheduled IPO, forecasting that Big Hit will co...
Financial intelligence firm PEI is poised to host this year‘s Infrastructure Investor Seoul Summit virtually on Sept. 8, the company said on Sept. 2. The event comes as the London-based company looks to provide a virtual place for the global infrastructure investing community to connect with Sout...
South Korea’s central bank said on Sept. 2 it has launched research into adopting artificial intelligence deep learning to extract economic growth forecasts, amid growing uncertainties stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The Bank of Korea expressed anticipations of predicting the nation’s g...
To keep stock market volatility at bay amid concerns that COVID-19 will continue to affect the market next year, South Korea has extended its temporary ban on short-selling activities of all listed Korean shares to March 2021. And the government is set to toughen penalties against illegal acts such...
South Korean institutional investor the Korea Teachers’ Credit Union said on Sept. 1 that it planned to commit 150 billion won (US$126.79 million) to 10 external partners this year to create blind pool funds for venture investments. KTCU will pick three large venture capital houses, four mid-siz...
The initial public offering of Kakao Games is likely to be the most successful market debut in South Korea’s history in terms of the number of applicants for its shares, according to market watchers on August 31. In the two-day book building for institutional investors that wrapped up on Thursda...
JB Financial Group said on August 31 that it has launched a brokerage unit through its newly acquired Morgan Stanley Gateway Securities, a midsized brokerage firm headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. It has changed the company name to JB Securities Vietnam as part of a move to officially start operatio...
Shares of South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao and top portal operator Naver continued their bullish run on the local stock market on August 27, on investors’ profit-taking drive from “untact” -- contactless -- sectors amid the second round of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kakao’s stoc...
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