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Korea offers great potential for long-term investors, such as pension funds, as it reaps the effect of improvements in other overseas economies, according to Schroder Investment Management. The Korean economy [...]

Developing countries have been relatively successful in attracting foreign investments since the end of the 1980s. However, very few investments are being made in the development of infrastructure, which is crucial in sustaining high economic growth rates. Statistics show that since the end of the 1980s, foreign investment inflows in the form of private equity and debt financing have averaged over $120 billion annually among the main borrowers. More foreign investments should go to electric power supply, telecommunications networks and transportation systems., If developing economies are to boost infrastructural development, they will need more private backers, writes Toyoo Gyohten of the Institute of International Finance Emerging economies have been successful in attracting [...]