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Korea’s National Pension Service reports investment return of 4.75% in 2016
- Collected
- 2017.03.01
- Distributed
- 2017.03.02
- Source
- Go Direct
Assets held by the NPS totaled 558.3 trillion won ($494 billion) last year, up 46 trillion won from 512.3 trillion won a year ago, driven by 22 trillion won in net premiums and 24.7 trillion won in profit from investments.
As of last year, a bulk of assets worth 557.7 trillion won were invested in financial products, with domestic bonds accounting for the largest 50.7 percent of it. Domestic stocks came next with a share of 18.4 percent, followed by overseas equities with 15.4 percent.
The fund’s investment return was up 0.18 percent to 4.75 percent last year. By sector, overseas alternative investments contributed most, representing 12.34 percent of the total return, followed by foreign stocks that accounted 10.13 percent.
The state pension fund`s annual investment return averaged 5.07 percent over the five year period between 2012 and 2016 and 5.38 percent in the last decade.
Meanwhile, the NPS decided to cut the target ratio of global stocks managed by outside asset managers to 55-75 percent from the current 65-85 percent and instead to increase its direct management overseas.
As of 2016, 150.8 trillion won or 27.1 percent of the fund`s total assets were invested in overseas assets. It plans to increase the share of overseas investments to more than 35 percent by 2021.
By Yong Hwan-jin
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