10th July, 2024
The UK’s new Labour administration is set to hit the ground running with its new GBP7.3 billion (US$9.3 billion) National Wealth Fund (NWF) by utilizing existing governance structures and capital to start immediate investment in “green” infrastructure.
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6th June, 2024
Most political parties competing in the UK general election have pledged some form of sovereign wealth fund if they win power on June 4th, but like all manifesto commitments they are light on detail.
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11th August, 2023
August is normally a prolific month for appointments and new hires, especially among those funds in the Northern Hemisphere and for those executives with families that need to relocate and find new schools. Here’s an update of what is happening around the human capital of Sovereign Investors:
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18th May, 2023
Britain’s “Future Fund”, overseen by the state-owned British Business Bank (BBB), is completing its third year of operations this week having delivered GBP1.14 billion of investment in startups during the pandemic – yet performance is mixed, criticism is fierce, and the possibility of a fully-fledged UK sovereign wealth fund remains dim.
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27th January, 2023
The UK’s low-key sovereign investor, the British Business Bank’s Future Fund, has been quietly ramping up its investments since its launch in May 2020 with a total of GBP1.14 billion (US$1.41 billion) disbursed by end-2022.
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8th March, 2022
Today is International Women’s Day and, once again, we have studied in detail the female representation at State-Owned Investors, including SWFs and PPFs. Diversity and inclusion are becoming key parameters in ESG reporting, and funds are putting a lot of effort in recruiting and retaining people of all genders, races and backgrounds. We observe large disparities in the composition of the workforce of the world’s major SOIs
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