SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Global economic think tanks and investment banks (IBs) are predicting South Korea’s growth to slide to the upper 2 percent range in 2016 due to slumping exports and weak domestic demand, financial market sources said Monday. The latest monthly Consensus Economic report showed overseas think tanks and IBs expect Asia’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As financial authorities and creditors have held off a plan to support the normalization of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the union from the Korea Development Bank (KDB) is pushing for a restructuring based on fundamentals. KDB’s union urged Daewoo to restructure even if the companies goes under legal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) – Japanese private equity firm Orix has given up its bid to buy Hyundai Securities Co., local financial sources said Monday. According to insiders, Orix informed Hyundai Group, which had placed the brokerage firm on sale, that it will not extend negotiations designed to purchase the company, without disclosing further details. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top financial regulator said Sunday that it will allow local insurance firms to decide premiums for their insurance policies on their own in a bid to promote price competition in the long-slumped market. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said it will remove guidelines for setting insurance premiums from the beginning of 2016. Since 2000, the financial authorities have required local insurers to set aside a certain amount of money to make [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s bourse operator said Sunday that kerosene will be traded on its spot market later this month tofurther expand the country’s commodity spot trading market. Starting Oct. 26, kerosene will begin trading from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the system, with the basic trading unit set at 20,000 liters, according to the Korea Exchange (KRX). Kerosene, or lamp oil, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean securities companies are waging a fierce competition to take over KDB Daewoo Securities Co., one of the nation’s leading brokerages, in a deal that could come as a game changer for the industry. The Korea Development Bank (KDB), a state-run policy lender, is seeking to sell off [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean bourse operator said Monday that it will seek to lure overseas exchange traded funds (ETFs) into the local stock market in order to meet rising demand for overseas direct investment by locals. An ETF refers to an investment fund traded on stock exchanges and represents a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The financial regulator said Sunday that it will allow public and private pension funds to invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) in a bid to provide a safer and decent yield-generating investment tool in the low rate environment. An ETF refers to an investment fund traded on stock exchanges [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign ownership of Samsung Electronics Co. has dropped below the 51 percent level for the first time in 14 months, market data showed Tuesday, as offshore investors continue to sell its shares due to a bleak earnings outlook. Foreign holdings of Samsung Electronics shares came to 50.76 percent as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Large general agencies (GAs) are expanding their sales power, employing more than 100,000 financial consultants and surpassing 10 percent market share. However, their cases of incomplete sales of insurance went up slightly. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced that as large GAs with more than 500 financial consultants are increasing [...]