Korea NPS promotes corporate investment team head to domestic alts head

Jae-Wook Lee, the former head of the corporate investment team head, is now the acting head of domestic alternative investments at Korea’s National Pension Service.

National Pension Service of Korea (NPS) has named Jae-Wook Lee, the former head of the corporate investment team, as the acting head of domestic alternative investments, after his predecessor Jae-Bum Kim left the company last month.

Lee will take charge of real estate, private equity and venture investments in South Korea.

According to the Korean pension, a third of its executives have left the firm since 2017 and NPS cannot find suitable candidates to replace them.

The KRW638.5 trillion ($568.7 billion; €489.1 billion) NPS allocated 10.9 percent of its total assets to alternative investments as of June 2018.

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