Korea Investment & Securities (President Kim Sung-hwan) has solidified strategic cooperation with global management companies and provided global investment insights for individual customers.
Korea Investment & Securities held a seminar titled “2025 Global Market Outlook” at Grand Intercontinental Parnas in Samseong-dong, Seoul on the 23rd. Based on the global network that has continued cooperation, leading managers were invited to provide differentiated investment insights to individual customers and introduce strategic investment products. More than 100 individual customers of Korea Investment & Securities attended the site and showed high interest.
The seminar was attended by Hersh Gandhi, Asia representative of the Man Group, Edward Cole, multi-strategic representative, and Kang Seok-won, Korea representative of the Man Group. In addition, Lexington Partners Asia General Partner Lee Yong-seok, Korean CEO Franklin Templeton Kim Tae-hee, Korean public offering bond customer portfolio manager and Korean CEO Park Jong-hak, and Korea Investment Trust Management Director Song Seung-ryong attended to provide practical investment insights to customers through various topics such as the global market outlook in 2025, changes in the private equity market and opportunity factors in the global credit market. “The trade war is causing global bond market uncertainty, but differentiation between credit stocks could provide investors with selective investment opportunities,” Asia CEO Hershey Gandhi said at the seminar.
Man Group is a 200-year-old British asset manager and listed management company on the London Exchange, with operating assets worth 175 billion dollars (about 240 trillion won). It operates mainly on credit strategies such as alternative investment strategies such as absolute return-seeking, macro strategies, structured bonds, and private equity bonds, and innovative multi-investment strategies.
Franklin Templeton is one of the world’s largest asset managers established in 1947. It is currently operating 1.6 trillion dollars (about 2,200 trillion won). It is a comprehensive management company with both traditional and alternative asset management capabilities and has a number of operating affiliates such as Lexington.
Bearing Asset Management is the flagship subsidiary of MassMutual, one of Fortune’s top 500 companies, and its current operating assets are $442 billion (about 620 trillion won). Mann Group and Bearing Asset Management have recently introduced excellent global credit products through Korea Investment & Securities Retail.
Meanwhile, Kim Sung-hwan, president of Korea Investment & Securities Co., met with John E. Waldron, COO of Goldman Sachs, during his visit to Seoul, reaffirming his commitment to strategic cooperation between the two companies. Recently, Korea Investment & Securities signed a business agreement with both companies at Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York and discussed sourcing Goldman Sachs Asset Management Fund, updating Goldman Sachs Market, and sharing data, creating a new cooperative model with global financial companies.
Kim Sung-hwan, president of Korea Investment & Securities, said, “We are trying to provide a wider variety of advanced financial products and investment insights to customers by utilizing global networks. We will continue to provide different financial services to customers through close partnerships with global management companies and lead K Financial’s global standards.”
