Expect Korea wave into alternatives

Institutional investors from South Korea are going to become major allocators to global alternative investments, says the former head of real-asset investments at Korea Post. Speaking at a recent institutional forum in Tokyo organised by AsianInvestor, Song In-kyu says that worries about risk in equity markets and poor returns on global fixed income mean alternatives will play a growing role in overseas allocations. Song left the $90 billion Korea Post last month to join Pricewa…