Asia real estate and outbound investment news
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>>
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 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>>
Sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) has exited its investment in Blackstone 11 years after taking a stake in the US alternative investment giant. During that stretch, the guardian of China’s foreign exchange reserves and the world’s biggest landlord… Read More>>
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has opened an office in Singapore, as the $122 billion sovereign wealth fund continues to expand its alternative investments beyond its east Asian home base.
KIC will manage assets locally through the Singapore office, while building… Read More>>
Sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) returned to profitability in 2016 after a dismal showing the previous year, as the mainland’s leading investor in overseas real estate ramps up its exposure to property and other alternative assets. The world’s… Read More>>
Donald Trump may have promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington, but the number crunchers at Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund are willing to make a $1 billion bet that there will be more lobbying business and strategic advisors crowding around… Read More>>
Despite reports of capital controls and a slackening in outbound investment, the head of China’s largest sovereign wealth fund expects the guardian of China’s foreign reserves to invest more in the US in 2017 than it did in 2016.
China… Read More>>
There will be a number of familiar faces in new roles at GIC come the start of the year as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund made a spate of senior leadership appointments that will take effect at the start of 2017…. Read More>>
Chinese president Xi Jinping is staying at Buckingham Palace and having lunch with Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, but China’s recent investment behavior indicates that the UK might not derive the economic benefits it’s looking for by rolling out the… Read More>>
