Wonhyeok Choi Email Address

Senior Equity Portfolio Manager

KIC is the Sovereign Wealth Fund which is launched with a view to enhance sovereign wealth and contribute to the development of the domestic financial industry. KIC is mandated to manage assets entrusted by the Government and the Bank of Korea.\r\n\r\nKIC strives to preserve long-term purchasing power of the assets entrusted and exceed investment target return within justifiable level of the risk through investing well-diversified, foreign currency denominated assets transacted in the international capital markets.\r\n\r\nThe foremost mission of KIC is to increase the long-term purchasing power of sovereign wealth by efficiently managing the country’s public funds. As more assets are entrusted to its care, KIC aims to grow into Korea’s premier investment management company specializing in overseas investing.

I am an investment professional at KIC with 15+ years of experiences in managing various global and regional equity portfolios(multi billions usd) based on both quantitative and fundamental approach. At the same time, I am an academic researcher(PhD student) at KAIST, which my research interest is in Artificial intelligence Organization, AI in Investment Management, Innovation etc. "Deliver superior performance over long-term": consistent positive alpha(excess return) during my career. - Global Quant Fund, EM ($5bn- , 2019-), managing in Seoul HQ - Global Quant Fund, DM ($9-10bn, 2018), managed in Seoul HQ - Global Fundamental Fund($3-5bn, 2016-2017), managed in Seoul HQ - European Fundamental Active Fund($3-5bn, 2011-2015), launched/managed in London Office. - Global Quant Fund($1-10bn, 2008-2011), launched/managed in Seoul HQ "Build new businesses": various in-house platform and strategies - Joined KIC in 2007 as one of two initial members for setting up a new in-house equity team. The In-house platform have grown from $0(2007), $1bn(2008) to $30bn(2016) - Adept in implementing the relevant system and process for in-house equity portfolio management and trading from zero base. - Adept in managing multi-billions sized large asset portfolio, launching various portfolio strategies over both fundamental equity and quantitative equity upon requests. - Built and managed the passive and enhanced quant optimized portfolio. - Built and managed the enhanced and active fundamental portfolio.