[2026 Asia Fund Awards] Samsung Asset Management, No. 1 ETF Manager in the Industry

Best ETF Management Company

At the 2026 Asia Fund Awards, Samsung Asset Management was selected as the Best ETF Management Company.

As of the end of last month, Samsung Asset Management was the No. 1 ETF manager in the industry with a market share of 39.6%. Its ETF brand, KODEX, has set the standard for the domestic ETF market. Out of the total domestic ETF market of approximately 348 trillion won, KODEX accounts for about 137.8 trillion won, making it the top brand in terms of share among ETFs held by individual investors.

The company holds a total of 27 equity ETFs with net assets of more than 1 trillion won each. In particular, KODEX 200 has grown into the largest and most liquid product in the domestic market, with net assets of about 14.3 trillion won, serving as a solid pillar of the Korean stock market. As a leading ETF manager, Samsung Asset Management is also making new attempts by launching products that did not previously exist in the domestic market. It listed a buffer-type ETF designed to respond to volatile market conditions in March last year, marking the first such listing in Asia.

Samsung Asset Management is growing into a global asset manager by listing ETF products that have been proven in Korea on the U.S. market. In 2023, in cooperation with U.S. ETF specialist Amplify, it listed the Amplify Samsung SOFR ETF (hereinafter SOF) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This was the first case of a domestically developed ETF being listed on the U.S. market.

Kim Wooseok, CEO of Samsung Asset Management