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Private Wealth
15 Oct 2026
Samsung Securities’ family-office platform has scaled to 200 families and ₩55 trillion in client assets. The composition of that book (exit owners now three times the level of three years earlier) signals a structural shift in Korean UHNW liquidity that private banks and managers must price into product and capacity planning.
Private Wealth
15 Oct 2026
Hana Securities has formally designated its first ten ultra-high-net-worth families for a closed family-office service. The deliberate capacity constraint and the inclusion of succession strategy as a core deliverable indicate a shift from open product platforms toward gated, multi-disciplinary advisory models in the Korean market.
Asset Owners
5 Oct 2026
South Korean authorities are leaning toward retaining the 70 per cent cap on risky assets in retirement pensions. Market volatility has slowed a reform push that had aimed to give savers more room. For managers, the near-term product and allocation story stays inside the existing framework.
Opinion
23 Sep 2026
UOB has earmarked about S$800 million over five years to grow its private bank, including people and technology. Chew Mun Yew, head of the private bank, said the plan includes adding about 50 relationship managers a year and developing Hong Kong capability, with offshore clients from Hong Kong, Japan and Korea in scope. The analytical point is franchise build versus waiting for consolidated books.
Asset Owners
23 Sep 2026
Korea’s National Pension Service is seeking a licence to invest in Indian government securities under SEBI’s lighter compliance route for low-risk foreign investors such as pensions and sovereign funds. Public reporting describes the application as advanced and among the first from a large global pension under that window. A dedicated G-sec channel would sit beside existing India equity exposure via offshore funds.
Asset Owners
18 Sep 2026
Lee Kyu-hong takes the National Pension Service’s chief fund officer seat on 14 September. Domestic equities were 29.1 per cent of financial assets at the end of June, above a target the committee had already raised to 20.8 per cent. The 2026 plan is unchanged.
Asset Owners
16 Sep 2026
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund continues to operate a four-box listed policy mix, with alternatives limited to 5 per cent inside those boxes. Korea’s National Pension Service has written a 14 per cent alternatives allocation, including private debt, into its 2026 plan. The two funds sit in the same regional coverage universe. Their mandates do not.
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