[2025 Asia Fund Awards] Samsung Asset Management, Korea's No.1 KODEX ETF

Best Manager in the ETF Category

At the 16th annual '2025 Asia Fund Awards,' Samsung Asset Management was selected as the Best Manager in the Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) category. Samsung Asset Management is the largest asset management company in Korea, with assets under management totaling 376 trillion KRW. Leveraging its strengths in managing traditional investment assets such as stocks and bonds, Samsung Asset Management has introduced financial products and service systems previously unavailable in the Korean market, including ETFs, Target Date Funds (TDF), and Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) services, contributing to asset growth for both individual and institutional investors.

Since becoming the first in the domestic asset management industry to surpass 100 trillion KRW in assets under management in 2011, Samsung Asset Management reached 200 trillion KRW in 2015 and 300 trillion KRW in 2021. As of the 17th of this month, the company manages approximately 375.5255 trillion KRW, making it the largest in the industry. It holds about 21.5% of the market share based on assets under management, with a gap of approximately 177 trillion KRW ahead of the second-largest competitor and a market share lead of 10.2 percentage points (P).

Samsung Asset Management leads global investment through innovative product development and management. It quickly responds to emerging new industries and promising markets by launching diverse products and consistently generating profits, thereby contributing to investors' wealth accumulation. The company focuses its core competencies on stable fund management through advanced management systems, top industry talent, and rigorous risk management.

KODEX is Samsung Asset Management’s ETF brand. Out of the approximately 188 trillion KRW domestic ETF market, KODEX accounts for about 71.7139 trillion KRW. With a market share of 38.1%, it is the number one ETF manager in the industry.

The KODEX US Nasdaq 100 ETF, which invests in the US Nasdaq 100, has seen its net assets increase by 1 trillion KRW over the past eight months, reaching 2 trillion KRW. It is the fastest-growing Nasdaq 100 ETF product with net assets exceeding 1 trillion KRW.

Samsung Asset Management’s KODEX US Individual Investor ETF, which selects and includes the 25 most preferred US stock items by domestic investors every month, recorded a 2024 year-to-date return of 98.6%. It was the top-performing domestic listed ETF (excluding leveraged ETFs) last year.

In November 2023, strategic partner Amplify, a US ETF specialist, listed the 'Amplify Samsung SOFR ETF' on the New York Stock Exchange. SOFR is a localized version of the management strategy of the KODEX US Dollar SOFR Rate Reactive ETF, which Samsung Asset Management was the first in the world to list on the domestic stock market. This is significant as it marks the listing of a product based on a uniquely domestic ETF management strategy on the ETF’s birthplace, the New York Stock Exchange. It is the first case in 21 years since ETFs were introduced in Korea that a domestic asset management company has successfully exported a native Korean ETF to the US stock market.

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