30th April, 2026
Two months after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, Gulf SWFs are acting according to mandate rather than market sentiment.
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27th April, 2026
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has moved from an aggressive, heavily syndicated offer into a shareholder-approved transaction whose main risks now sit in regulation, financing execution and Gulf sovereign capital capacity.
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20th April, 2026
L’Imad’s Aqaba Port Railway deal – the fund’s first major transaction since it was launched earlier this year, absorbing ADQ – has implications beyond transport.
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17th April, 2026
Hedge funds are not a major allocation for sovereign wealth funds or public pensions, but they have grown from an estimated 2.0% of SWF exposure in 2022 to over 3.0% in 2025.
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7th April, 2026
The reported PIF talks over a possible US$5 billion SpaceX IPO investment and the reported US$24 billion of Gulf sovereign backing for Paramount Skydance’s Warner deal show that Gulf sovereign wealth funds are becoming crucial repeat providers of large minority capital to Western billionaire-led platforms.
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4th March, 2026
Escalating tensions involving Iran and the security of the Strait of Hormuz have revived questions about how Gulf sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) will react to this major regional geopolitical crisis.
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30th January, 2026
Hours after publishing an article on Mohamed Al Suwaidi's transfer from ADQ to Lunate, the Abu Dhabi Media Office announced the take over of ADQ by L'IMAD, which helped explained the previous announcement. As confirmed by the Government, there will now be three major SWFs in the Emirate: ADIA, Mubadala (incl. ADIC), and L’IMAD (incl. ADQ).
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21st January, 2026
When UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – aka MBZ – visited India on 19 January, the joint statement that followed ranged across trade, defence, energy, technology and education.
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13th January, 2026
On Monday, the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs (SCFEA), which is chaired by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed (MbZ) and supervises all major energy and investment vehicles of Abu Dhabi, issued a resolution naming the new Board of Directors and the inaugural CEO of L’IMAD, the Emirate’s latest SWF.
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30th December, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, Global SWF’s most-read analysis reveals a clear pattern: audiences were far less interested in short-term returns or league tables, and far more engaged by how sovereign capital is being organised, governed, and deployed. Across Abu Dhabi, the Gulf, Asia, and beyond, the most-popular themes among our readers shared a common thread: power, structure, intent, and institutional design.
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27th November, 2025
Last week, Istvan Zollei of Orion Resource Partners summed up the new reality of the commodity world in one line: demand for copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt and rare earths is set to outpace supply “for much of the next decade,” driven not just by electric vehicles and renewables, but by data centres, artificial intelligence and the reshoring of industrial and defence production.
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25th November, 2025
When Brookfield Asset Management unveiled a new US$100 billion programme to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure last week, one name in the press release signalled how far the balance of power in AI has shifted: the Kuwait Investment Authority.
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