Eight Investment Company (also cited as Eight Investment Limited) is the private holding vehicle understood to sit atop Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's personal wealth. Rather than a state institution, it is a discreet, family-office-style entity identified by The New York Times as the ultimate owner of a chain of French and Luxembourg shell companies used to buy trophy assets. Publicly linked holdings include the ~$300m Château Louis XIV outside Paris, the ~$500m superyacht Serene, and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. The company keeps no public profile and discloses no assets, existing to hold the Crown Prince's private acquisitions.