Singapore’s GIC saw its investment performance fall to a more than 10-year low during the year ending 31 March, with a report released by the sovereign wealth fund showing its annualised rate of return over the past two decades dropping… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC Loses Most Active Sovereign Investor Spot as Deployment Halves
After five consecutive years of leading investment by state-owned funds globally, Singapore’s GIC and Temasek Holdings both cut their commitments by more than half last year, with the pair combining to deploy $26.2 billion of fresh capital last year.
That… Read More>>
Norway’s $1.4T Sovereign Fund Closing Shanghai Office in Shift to Singapore
Norges Bank Investment Management has begun the process of closing its representative office in Shanghai, as the overseer of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund continues to build up its Singapore branch as a hub of activity for all of Asia.
The… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC Ups Real Estate Exposure to 13% on REIT Buyouts
Real estate accounted for 13 percent of GIC’s overall portfolio by the end of its fiscal year on 31 March as the Singapore sovereign fund boosted its allocation to the asset class by three percentage points from a year earlier… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC Leads Sovereign Funds After Boosting Spending to $40.3B in 2022
Singapore’s GIC once again led all sovereign wealth and pension funds with $40.3 billion deployed in 2022, a “very challenging” year in which the state-owned investor segment shrank in terms of asset value for the first time ever, according to… Read More>>
LaSalle China Logistics Fund Gets $80M Boost From Texas, Sacramento
LaSalle Investment Management has secured $80 million worth of fresh capital commitments from two US public institutions in support of the LaSalle China Logistics Venture fund.
The Texas Permanent School Fund, a sovereign wealth fund that provides education revenue in… Read More>>
KIC Sets Up Future Strategy Group, Announces Senior Promotions
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) announced a senior management shuffle this week, accompanied by the establishment of a future strategy group to boost its strategic planning processes.
Among the leadership changes, Joseph Cha was named head of KIC’s real estate group,… Read More>>
Korea Investment Corporation Names Dae-yang Park As CIO
Korea Investment Corporation has appointed Dae-yang Park as its chief investment officer, according to an announcement by the sovereign wealth fund.
Park joins the South Korean sovereign wealth fund from the Korea Teachers Pension, where he had served as the… Read More>>
GIC Takes 25% Stake in €2B European Hotel Group CitizenM
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC announced last week that it had secured a 25 percent stake in the €2 billion ($2.25 billion) European hotel owner-operator citizenM.
The investment makes GIC the third prong in a trio of shareholders now in… Read More>>
Goldman Said to Pick Korea’s NPS as Preferred Buyer for £1.5B London HQ
Goldman Sachs is said to have picked Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) as the preferred buyer of its soon-to-be-completed European headquarters in London, according to a report in the Korean press, with the UK office building expected to change hands… Read More>>