{"id":634888,"date":"2026-06-12T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634888\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:20:12","slug":"korea-pension-funds-pivot-amplified-stock-swings-barclays-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634888\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Pension Fund\u2019s Pivot Amplified Stock Swings, Barclays Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A move by the National Pension Service to temporarily suspend portfolio rebalancing has fueled volatility in South Korea\u2019s stock market and added pressure on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-04\/krw-usd-south-korea-vows-action-in-case-of-excessive-move-as-won-weakens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">won<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BARC:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Barclays Plc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cWhile the rebalancing waiver contributed to superior returns for the NPS and Kospi, we believe the key tradeoff was really the increased volatility,\u201d Bum Ki Son, an economist at Barclays, wrote in a note. \u201cPensions are typically considered a stabilizer in the financial market. However, we believe the NPS tweak of its operations became an amplifier instead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A move by the National Pension Service to temporarily suspend portfolio rebalancing has fueled volatility in South Korea\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[733,73189,84,14137,460,4176,125950,585,467,4174,4175,11998,3356,11841,56,54,55,636],"class_list":["post-634888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-barclays-plc","tag-business","tag-capital-markets","tag-debt","tag-finance","tag-fund-management","tag-iran","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-south-korea","tag-stocks","tag-superannuation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}