Section
Funds
Korean fund performance, fees and the managers behind them.
Korea has 183,351 registered funds, and the factory that makes them is slowing down.
New fund registrations peaked in 2020 near 6,000 a year and have roughly halved since. What Korea launches is mostly derivatives and bonds — equity funds are one in ten. Among funds that name a country, America outnumbers China two to one.
Who watches Korea's private fund managers? Less of the market than you would think
A licensed manager can run hundreds of billions of won, trade listed shares daily on its own account, and disclose none of it in a form the public can search. Here is exactly where the record stops.