Archive

  • South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

    21 June 2024

    But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

  • South Korean affiliates cash in as investors seek fat profits from weight-loss ETFs

    18 March 2024

    Three affiliated managers' products gather SKR 150bn in under one month

  • Samsung Life takes 20% stake in French private equity manager

    20 April 2023

    Meridiam focuses on infrastructure investment

  • Blackstone wins $650m Samsung insurance mandate

    28 September 2022

    Will manage alternative assets for two Samsung subsidiaries

  • Samsung Life acquires minority stake in Savills IM

    04 January 2022

    Priced at $86m and commit capital of $1bn over the initial term

  • Korean life insurers' outlook stable, Moody's says

    27 April 2021

    But industry not out of the woods regarding credit and transition risks

  • Manulife IM and Samsung AM to cooperate in South Korea strategies

    12 April 2021

    Opening co-investment opportunities in infrastructure, private debt, and credit

  • 43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies

    02 December 2020

    Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies

  • 2020 Asia Outlook: Unthreading the Asian patchwork

    15 January 2020

    Ever a patchwork of underwriting industries, the insurers of Asia will go their own ways when investing in 2020, as demands of performance, new regulation and even mild governmental cajoling come to play in varying degrees in the different jurisdictions. By David Walker

  • South Korean insurers in the low rates storm

    02 January 2020

    Some South Korean insurers are making 1% too little from their investments to cover their promises. David Walker reports on the investment challenges the industry faces, and how it is coping.