{"id":11031,"date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"kic-to-hedge-against-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/kic-to-hedge-against-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"KIC to hedge against inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korea Herald &#8211; The CEO of Korea Investment Corp. said yesterday the company would invest $1 billion in inflation-hedging assets such as price-linked bonds, commodities and real estate assets as part of its exit strategy, amid rising concerns over possible &quot;hyper inflation.&quot; The nation&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund received $3 billion from the Finance Ministry in July, of which it will spend $2 billion in investing in traditional overseas bonds and stocks, and the remaining $1 billion in new alternative investments like inflation-hedging assets. <\/p>\n<p>With the $3 billion included, the KIC now manages a $27.8 billion fund, of which $17 billion came from the Bank of Korea and 10.8 billion from the Finance Ministry. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.koreaherald.co.kr\/NEWKHSITE\/data\/html_dir\/2009\/07\/16\/200907160019.asp?FORM=ZZNR10\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korea Herald &#8211; The CEO of Korea Investment Corp. said yesterday the company would invest $1 billion in inflation-hedging assets such as price-linked bonds, commodities and real estate assets as part of its exit strategy, amid rising concerns over possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1570,4642,3004,1563,207,9492,14182,14180,1917,14181,14179,2861,353],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-billion","tag-alternative-investments","tag-bonds","tag-ceo","tag-commodities","tag-estate-assets","tag-exit-strategy","tag-finance-ministry","tag-inflation","tag-kic","tag-korea-herald","tag-real-estate","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}