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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12th November, 2025
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and ORIX have launched a Japan-only buyout vehicle, OQCI Fund LP, at the yen-equivalent of US$2.5 billion.
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6th November, 2025
By any measure, Egypt in 2025 is still navigating a fragile recovery. It has been left structurally dependent on external support following a decade of repeated currency crises, surging external debt, inflation shocks, and fallout from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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3rd November, 2025
Abu Dhabi has introduced a new state vehicle with minimal public fanfare but immediate consequence.
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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.