[2026 Asia Fund Awards] Mirae Asset Global Investments Grows into a Truly Global Asset Manager

Grand Prize

Mirae Asset Global Investments received the Grand Prize at the 2026 Asia Fund Awards.

Mirae Asset Global Investments has grown into a truly global asset management company and is leading the market with innovative investment solutions. After becoming the first Korean asset manager to advance overseas by establishing its Hong Kong subsidiary in 2003, Mirae Asset Global Investments is now managing a total of 510 trillion won across 16 regions, including the United States, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia. Its assets under management, which stood at 250 trillion won at the end of 2022, increased to 305 trillion won at the end of 2023 and 378 trillion won at the end of 2024, marking an increase of 250 trillion won in about three years. It is being evaluated as continuously securing growth drivers and strengthening its status as a global asset manager.

In the United States, the world’s largest ETF market, Global X has grown into a global top-tier ETF provider by offering innovative thematic and income-focused products that differentiate it from traditional asset managers. When Mirae Asset Global Investments acquired Global X in 2018, its assets under management were only 8 trillion won, but they have now grown to 80 trillion won, an approximately tenfold increase.

Its influence in the pension market is also steadily expanding. Having launched Korea’s first target date fund (TDF), Mirae Asset Global Investments is leading the pension market, ranking first in pension fund assets under management, first in TDF market share, and first in assets under management for default option-dedicated funds.

In the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) business, since 2021 the company has served as the lead manager of the Public Officials Pension Fund Investment Pool, creating a variety of innovative cases, including expanding deposits from public institutions, diversifying investment assets, and launching multiple alternative investment products for the investment pool for the first time. In August this year, it launched the first venture investment product within the pension investment pool, creating an important turning point in expanding venture investment by pension funds and public institutions.

The company has also secured competitiveness as a real estate investment platform spanning the globe. Mirae Asset Global Investments, which established Korea’s first real estate fund in 2004, is regarded as having built up a diverse investment track record over 21 years. In April last year, it set up the third Korea Post domestic real estate core strategy blind fund, once again proving its unrivaled asset management capabilities.