How Korea's POBA benefits from foreign pension partnerships
Having local partners in overseas markets means the Korean pension fund has continued its direct alternatives investment drive even during Covid-19. The focus now is on broadening these partnerships, its CIO tells AsianInvestor.
Having good partners will help you in times of trouble, and that was certainly the case for Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (Poba) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As travelling around the world amid the pandemic became a challenge at best and impossible at worst, the crucial on-site due diligence of alternatives investments, especially within real assets like real estate and infrastructure, became a challenge in overseas markets.
Huh Jang, POBA
However, due to…
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