4th August, 2025
In the world of high finance, it’s easy to miss a turning point until it’s already happened. Yet, two recent deals - Brunei’s sovereign wealth fund taking a near-20% stake in Bridgewater Associates and Bahrain’s Mumtalakat joining the anchor circle of BlueFive Capital - are bellwethers for a new era in institutional investing.
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18th April, 2022
The past few years have not been easy for the finances of Oman Inc. The Sultanate has one of the smallest shares of crude oil reserves in the GCC and the second highest fiscal breakeven point, after Bahrain. For the period 2015-2021, Omanis needed the oil price to be above $87/barrel to make money – which never happened, until January 2022.
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1st July, 2021
We are pleased to present the results of the 2021 edition of our GSR Scoreboard, which has become a critical tool of analysis of Sovereign Investors’ Governance, Sustainability and Resilience efforts.
8th February, 2021
Self-driving car startups are turning to state-owned investors for capital as they drive past unicorn as the pandemic accelerates the adoption of autonomous transportation technologies. Altogether, state-owned investors have deployed more than US$3.5 billion of capital into autonomous transportation solutions, from robotaxis to food delivery.
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