1st April, 2026
The Republic of Kazakhstan has four major Sovereign Wealth Funds: the National Fund (NF), the National Investment Corporation (NIC), which operate under the central bank the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK), Samruk-Kazyna JSC (SK), and Baiterek NIH JSC, a state development holding focused on the banking sector.
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.
1st September, 2025
In 2013, Kazakhstan spun off the portfolio of financial institutions from Samruk-Kazyna and established another SWF, Baiterek, which has evolved significantly since then. We were delighted to speak with Mr. Timur Onzhanov, the Fund’s Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, about Baiterek’s strategy and plans.
12th January, 2023
Kazakhstan has always been home of significant Sovereign Wealth, due to vast gas reserves and annual revenues. The country’s most known and largest SWF is Samruk-Kazyna, which was modeled after Temasek and was born out of the merger of two holding companies, Samruk and Kazyna in 2008.
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