[2025 Capital Investment Awards] Korea Investment & Securities Tops Returns in Retirement Pension Default Option

Korea Investment & Securities received the Financial Investment Association Chairman's Award in the Retirement Pension category at the '2025 Asia Capital Investment Awards' held at Lotte Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul on December 4, 2025. Photo by Kang Jinhyung

Korea Investment & Securities received the top award in the Retirement Pension category at the '2025 Asia Capital Investment Awards'.

Korea Investment & Securities jointly developed the dedicated default option product, the 'Mysuper Series', with Korea Investment Management. The company has been recognized for delivering stable performance based on a global diversification and ETF-centered asset allocation strategy.

The default option of Korea Investment & Securities achieved the highest returns in the securities industry for six consecutive quarters, from the first quarter of 2024 to the second quarter of 2025, and significantly outperformed the industry average in aggressive, neutral, and conservative investment types. This is the result of steadily growing customers' retirement pension assets and has contributed to increasing the retirement assets of the public.

The default option is noted for its strengths, including long-term investment, low-cost investment, global diversification, and the ability to respond to market changes. In the product development process, the company utilized the expertise of domestic and overseas pension fund management, and benchmarked leading overseas pension systems to apply asset allocation optimized for domestic investors.

Sungwhan Kim, President of Korea Investment & Securities

In particular, for the first time in Korea, the company also benchmarked the inflation-linked management strategy of the default option 'MySuper' from Australia, a leading country in pension systems. By setting an investment goal of achieving returns above inflation, the product secures the real purchasing power of retirement funds. It is also characterized by investing in alternative assets such as gold, commodities, inflation-linked bonds, and real estate, which are effective in hedging against inflation, while optimizing asset allocation for the Korean capital market environment through global diversification and domestic bonds. Among 220 products from 38 providers in 2022, this product was the only 'new product' to receive approval as a qualified default option.