<\/p>\n
Korea\u2019s National Pension Service (NPS) reported a 10.26% investment return through the first two months of 2026, down from 11% a year ago, as semiconductor stocks drove a 49.82% gain from its Korean equity investments, mirroring the surge in the benchmark stock index.<\/p>\n
The NPS announced the figures for January-February, attributing them to the \u201csustained strong performance of the Korean stock market, centred around semiconductors\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index jumped 48.17% in the two-month period.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fund\u2019s strong performance was largely fuelled by increased demand for semiconductor-related equities, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. This surge significantly contributed to the overall return,\u201d the NPS says.<\/p>\n
By contrast, the pension giant lost 0.24% from its Korean bond portfolio as higher interest rates reduced valuations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The return from its foreign equity portfolio was3.27%, which the NPS credited to \u201csolid performance of US companies, despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainties\u201d. TheMSCI All Country World Index rose\u00a0 <\/span>3.75% in January through February.<\/p>\n The NPS is the world\u2019s third largest pension fund, with around 1,610 trillion won (US$1.08 trillion) of assets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Korea\u2019s National Pension Service (NPS) reported a 10.26% investment return through the first two months of 2026, down from 11% a year ago, as semiconductor stocks drove a 49.82% gain from its Korean equity investments, mirroring the surge in the benchmark stock index. The NPS announced the figures for January-February, attributing them to the \u201csustained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-rubriki"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NPS-Korea-1-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NPS-Korea-1-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NPS-Korea-1-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"full":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NPS-Korea-1.jpg",1439,948,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}