｜ Best Asset Management Company in the Public Fund Category

At the 16th annual '2025 Asia Fund Awards', Korea Investment Management was selected as the Best Asset Management Company in the public fund category.

Korea Investment Management is a leading comprehensive asset management company in Korea, currently managing approximately 70 trillion KRW in assets. The company pursues a long-term performance-oriented investment philosophy while operating almost every type of fund, including funds investing in domestic and overseas stocks and bonds, as well as exchange-traded funds (ETF) and target date funds (TDF).

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Since CEO Bae Jaegyu took office in 2022, Korea Investment Management has focused on developing and managing products related to investments in US growth stocks, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductor companies. This is based on the analysis that the role of semiconductors in the generative AI sector is growing, and the growth momentum of global AI and semiconductor companies is expected to continue for the time being.

The 'Korea Investment Global AI & Semiconductor TOP10' fund, launched in April 2023, invests intensively in the top 10 leading companies in the global AI and semiconductor industries. The fund focuses on two key strategies for investing in AI and semiconductor companies with high growth potential: 'synergy' and 'winner-takes-all.' Its main holdings include leading listed companies in the AI market such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, TSMC, Meta Platforms, and Broadcom.

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To reflect the rapidly changing AI ecosystem, the company uses its own proprietary model to construct its investment universe and selects detailed themes based on the scale and changes within the AI and semiconductor sub-industries. Market dominance and entry barriers for each theme are evaluated from multiple angles to identify and invest in leading companies in each field. The fund's one-year return ranged from 29.60% to 42.29%, and its six-month return ranged from 13.45% to 21.04%, outperforming the average one-year return of 19.67% for all overseas equity funds and 23.26% for overseas information technology sector funds. The fund series' assets under management reached 163.9 billion KRW, representing a 552.99% increase from 25.1 billion KRW at the end of 2023.

Korea Investment Management has also achieved remarkable results in the profit-sharing public fund market. The first profit-sharing public fund, 'Korea Investment Global New Growth Fund', launched in 2023, achieved its target return of 20% in November last year and made an early redemption.

Last year, Korea Investment Management launched three new profit-sharing funds and successfully attracted capital, now managing them actively. The company accounts for about half of the domestic profit-sharing public fund market.