Korea’s financial regulator has a close eye on overseas real estate funds worth roughly 75 trillion won ($55.8 billion), saying investments by individual investors are the most concerning.
Financial Services Commission Vice Chairman Kim So-young said at a briefing in Seoul on Thursday that while institutions might get hit with losses, there wasn’t systemic risk. He said 96% of the funds are held by institutional players.
“What we’re really worried about is the retail investor portion,” worth 3.1 trillion won, he said. “If there is any kind of misconduct in terms of fund sales or anything like that, we’re going to take a hard line on that.” The comments come as red flags pop up in the global market for real estate finance, with Korean investors looking particularly exposed to a downturn in the market for office blocks. On the domestic front, a credit union branch was forced to close earlier this year after customers pulled deposits due to concern about soured loans, just months after the default of a developer caused a credit crunch.
“I think the likelihood of investor losses, of course, could happen, but the likelihood of it escalating to systemic risk is fairly small,” he said.
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