Credit Agricole inks Korea fund management JV

Credit Agricole Asset Management (CA-AM) and South Korea's National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF) have signed an agreement to establish a joint investment trust management company in Seoul. The NACF is a huge institutional investor and will probably become the new JV's anchor client. Moreover it is the largest retail bank in the country, and will distribute the JV's funds to its customers throughout its 867 branches.