Chief Executive Park Hyeong-seok of Mastern Investment Management set restoring investor confidence and organizational innovation as this year's tasks and said it will be "a year to focus on the essence and execute."
In a New Year's message on Jan. 2, Park said, "The more uncertainty there is, the more important it is not to run blindly, but to discern what must be upheld and what to focus on, and then to act with courage and responsibility," adding, "We will make 2026 not simply a year of recovery, but a year to make clear what we will set right and concentrate on."
Mastern Investment Management presented four core tasks for this year: "restore investor and market participant confidence," "complete the One Mastern execution," "discover investors and rebuild networks," and "clarify investment strategies by investment management institutional sector."
First, to restore confidence, the company plans to overhaul its companywide portfolio allocation system and strengthen preemptive risk management reflecting market cycles. It expects to elevate companywide capabilities by creating a new risk management (RM) institutional sector. On the organizational side, under the recently implemented "One Mastern" policy, it reorganized to separate the domestic investment institutional sector from the management institutional sector to strengthen new investment capabilities. It also created a Fund Management Headquarters dedicated to the assets under management to establish a focused management system.
Park explained, "We aim for an organization in which each institutional sector has expertise and responsibility while understanding the flow of other institutional sectors and working in sync."
In addition, on the investor discovery front, it plans to strengthen networks with domestic and overseas LPs and GPs and strategic investors and enhance communication with investors. In terms of investment strategy, it will pursue sector-specific differentiation strategies to strengthen the medium- to long-term portfolio competitiveness for new-growth assets and traditional assets.
Park said, "The funds we manage are the social safety net that supports people's daily lives and retirement, including pension funds, mutual aid associations, and insurers," adding, "We will always keep that weight and value in mind and move forward without wavering."