21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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16th October, 2025
Blackstone and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate have launched GLIDE, a platform targeting about US$5 billion of Grade-A logistics across the Gulf.
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13th October, 2025
Last week, Global SWF presented its 2025 MENA Special Playbook at an event co-hosted with American law firm Morgan Lewis, at the Rosewood Hotel (ADGM) in Abu Dhabi. This is the fifth SWF conference organized by Global SWF in the past 15 months, after two similar workshops in New York, and two more in Singapore.
11th September, 2025
Mubadala’s secondary sale of up to 7.55% of du (EITC) signals how sovereign capital is steering the UAE’s equity markets in 2025, as well as demonstrating its bid to liquidise assets through public markets as it redeploys capital to other strategic sectors.
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2nd September, 2025
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds have spent the past 18 months turning healthcare and life sciences into platforms with international reach.
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27th August, 2025
Abu Dhabi-based, ADQ-anchored alternative manager Lunate will buy a minority stake in Brevan Howard and commit US$2 billion of long-term capital to a new investment platform domiciled in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), with further fundraising planned from regional and international investors.
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13th August, 2025
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ made a bold digital infrastructure move with its first overseas deal via its digital infra arm Zero Two.
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11th August, 2025
When Abu Dhabi’s ADQ joined forces with International Holding Company (IHC) and First Abu Dhabi Bank to launch a UAE Dirham-backed stablecoin, it was a geopolitical move, a monetary gambit, and a market-access play rolled into one.
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16th May, 2025
Donald Trump's May 2025 Gulf tour wasn't a diplomatic charm offensive, it was a commercial onslaught.
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28th April, 2025
Kuwait is converting its US$4 billion in deposits at Egypt's Central Bank into direct investments, following Gulf peers in significantly ramping up economic stakes in Egypt
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25th April, 2025
Something big is happening in 2025. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) - the US$13 trillion heavyweights of state capitalism - are no longer just chasing yield. They're making political moves.
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25th March, 2025
Sovereign investment manager Lunate Capital, which was established in 2024 by merging the portfolios and the teams of sovereign wealth fund ADQ, its subsidiary ADG, and Chimera Capital, continues to grow and to create new investment theses for its US$ 105 billion portfolio.
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