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Samsung Insurers to Expand Global Alternative Investment via Blackstone


Samsung Life Insurance Co.'s headquarters in southern Seoul. (Yonhap)

Samsung Life Insurance Co.’s headquarters in southern Seoul. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire)Samsung Group’s insurance affiliates said Wednesday they have signed a deal with U.S. asset management behemoth Blackstone Inc. to invest some US$650 million in alternative assets, such as real estate and infrastructure facilities.

The two — Samsung Life Insurance Co. and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. — will chip in the amount in the alternative fund managed by Blackstone.

In recent years, Samsung’s financial firms have been aggressively pushing for global investment.

Samsung Life bought a 25 percent stake in Savills Investment Management, the real estate management leg of British property giant Savills.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance purchased a 19 percent stake of British reinsurer Canopius AG between 2019 and 2020.

(Yonhap)

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