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South Korean asset manager and one of the country's largest fund houses, offering mutual funds and ETFs; owns the Global X ETF brand.
Pacer's COWZ has grown to about $19 billion and VictoryShares' VFLO past $11 billion as US funds that pick stocks by free cash flow gain ground. Their screens rank companies on the cash that AI spending consumes, though asset totals cannot show whether buyers are hedging the cycle.
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Four Korea-listed U.S. index ETFs took in 2.019 trillion won in the month to Oct. 7, ETF CHECK data show. A stronger won left the hedged version of TIGER's S&P 500 fund 10.67 points ahead of its unhedged twin over three months, so choosing a share class is now a call on the won.
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Four of five Korean 'patriotic' funds reviewed by Seoul Economic Daily returned 105% to 147% over the past year. Returns that close across governance, chip-growth and industrial-policy mandates point to a lift across the whole market more than to any one strategy.
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Samsung, Mirae Asset and KB are selling a 600 billion won National Growth Fund II with a loss buffer of 18.8% to 23.3%, up from 17.5% to 20.8%. State money and manager capital sit beneath savers, who also collect tax breaks for locking money up for five years.
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Asked where Chuseok cash gifts should go, Korea's five largest fund houses named ten ETFs, half of them with US or global mandates, and the one fund three firms picked independently holds US dividend growers.
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Mirae Asset lists the TIGER physical AI ETF on the Korea Exchange on the 22nd with 25% fixed to Hyundai Motor and 25% to LG Electronics, plus a standing rule to buy humanoid robot issuers at the close of the day after they list.
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The 10-year traded at 5.039% on the 15th, its highest since July 2007, after Saudi Arabia closed an alternative crude shipping route and oil passed $100. Eighty-five percent of the economists Reuters polled now expect a September Fed hike.
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The fund and its strategy are unchanged, so what the tokenized share class buys is a second route to buyers, with Citi running the register and an SFC-licensed venue owning the client relationship. Exchange trading is still future tense.
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