{"id":12959,"date":"2009-11-12T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12959"},"modified":"2009-11-12T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:24:55","slug":"korea-investment-corp-near-to-investing-us200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2009\/korea-investment-corp-near-to-investing-us200m.html","title":{"rendered":"Korea Investment Corp: Near To Investing US$200M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Korea Investment Corp., South Korea&#8217;s US$30 billion sovereign wealth fund, is close to investing US$200 million into two funds that invest in distressed real estate, Kyungoh Kook, director of KIC&#8217;s alternative investment team, said in an interview Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do we see opportunities in distressed transactions? Yes, there are good investments in the U.S. and Europe, but we are cautious because we don&#8217;t have much expertise&#8221; in that area, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Kook said that KIC is also looking to invest more in natural resources and commodities, sectors that serve as a good hedge against inflation. The sovereign wealth fund is interested in making direct investments in the space, ranging between $100 million to $500 million, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20091112-706792.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Korea Investment Corp., South Korea&#8217;s US$30 billion sovereign wealth fund, is close to investing US$200 million into two funds that invest in distressed real estate, Kyungoh Kook, director of KIC&#8217;s alternative investment team, said in an interview Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15848,16003],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge","tag-sovereign-wealth-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12961,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}