SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Pension Service (NPS) announced on July 12 that it may file a damages suit against Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), the country’s third-largest shipyard, due to its suspected accounting fraud. According to a prosecutorial investigation, DSME allegedly committed accounting fraud exceeding 5 trillion won ($4.36 billion) over [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state pension fund will invest around 1 trillion won (US$866.7 million) in overseas hedge funds for the first time this year as part of its efforts to diversify its investment portfolios, the health ministry said Friday. The plan was submitted to a public pension fund operation committee, which [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s national pension fund plans to make its first investment in overseas hedge funds next year as part of efforts to secure stable returns, an internal document from the fund showed Sunday. According to the 2016 asset allocation plan obtained by Yonhap News Agency, the National Pension Service (NPS) [...]
Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Corporate Governance Service (KCGS) has advised the National Pension Service (NPS) to oppose the merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries. According to a statement released by the financial investment industry on July 8, the KCGS recently submitted a report suggesting that the NPS should oppose the proposed [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean institutional investors own more than 20 percent of Samsung C&T, which could serve as the swing vote on its high-stakes fight with a U.S. hedge fund over a controversial merger plan, market sources said Tuesday. The state-run National Pension Service (NPS), the biggest institutional investor in South Korea, and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A merger between Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering has been shelved due to opposition by institutional investors including the National Pension Service. As the big investors exercised their stock buyback rights, the companies saw their merger cost soar and decided to call it off. Some analysts suggested that this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Pension Service is accelerating its investment overseas by establishing an office in Asia, either in Hong Kong or Singapore, by next year. Ahead of the relocation of its head office to Jeonju in the southwest, it is interpreted as a move to increase its presence in Asia. It will [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – While it is estimated that it costs an average of 1.37 million won (US$1,295) a month to sustain the minimum life for an aged couple, Korean are much behind in preparing for their post-retirement lives with little private pension plans or savings. According to a National Pension Service [...]