LG AI Research and NPS Begin Pension-Fund AI Work With Currency Analysis

LG AI Research and South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11, 2026, at LG AI Research’s headquarters in Magok, Seoul. Their first joint project is an AI-powered currency-analysis service designed for pension-fund management.47

How the partnership is meant to work

LG AI Research will contribute AI technology, while NPS will bring its investment and fund-management expertise. The organizations aim to develop tools tailored to NPS’s work, with the stated goal of making investment research and decision-making more efficient—not replacing investment judgment with a general-purpose AI answer.39

They plan to build the first service on EXAONE Business Intelligence (BI), LG’s financial AI agent. The proposed models will draw on economic indicators, financial news, research materials and NPS data to produce predictive and analytical work focused on currency movements.236 That focus gives the collaboration a defined initial use case rather than an immediate rollout across all investment decisions.

Testing and possible expansion

NPS and LG plan to develop and test the currency-analysis service, then apply jointly developed AI models and services in fund-management work. The agreement also calls for research into AI applications for investment operations.1012 The available reporting does not establish a pilot timetable, performance criteria or a sequence for wider deployment. Nor does it show that the service has improved forecast accuracy, reliability, safety or long-term returns.

At the signing, NPS executive Kang Chang-nam described AI as reshaping industries.9 Kang and LG AI Research business-development executive Lee Hwa-young were identified as attendees, but the available excerpts do not support a fuller account of Lee’s remarks or claims about global investor recognition and a leading public-sector adoption model.47

What EXAONE BI’s existing use does—and does not—show

LG says EXAONE BI is already used by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Koscom and Kiwoom Securities to analyze more than 8,000 South Korean and US-listed stocks daily, producing predictive scores and analyst-style analysis.36 Those reported uses indicate experience building financial-research tools. They do not, on their own, validate the proposed currency forecasts or establish how the system will perform with NPS data. The supplied sources do not substantiate a claimed relationship with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

For now, the clearest measure of the partnership is its plan: combine LG’s financial AI with NPS’s investment expertise, test a currency-focused service and investigate further uses in fund management. Its value to pension investors will depend on results that have yet to be reported.1012