| Korea Investment Corp., the country’s $76 billion sovereign wealth fund, plans to almost double its research staff to pick stocks for two new funds that may eventually comprise 30 percent of its equity holdings.
KIC will probably increase the research unit to about 60 people by 2017 from the current level of 32, said Rhee Keehong, the fund’s deputy chief investment officer and research head. KIC, which only invests overseas, had about $35 billion in stocks and $25 billion in bonds last year, with the remainder in alternative assets and other investments...............................................Full Article: Source
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