17th June, 2022
In exactly two weeks, on July 1, Global SWF will release the third edition of its GSR Scoreboard, which studies the progress done by State-Owned Investors around Governance, Sustainability and Resilience.
Subscriber Post
15th June, 2022
Two of Canada’s biggest public pension funds have ramped up their investments in the Indian road network, contributing a total of US$816 million to a US$1.2 billion deal to acquire assets from Brookfield.
Subscriber Post
15th June, 2022
Latest data gathered by Global SWF shows that most state-owned investors (SOIs) pivoted away from China in their public equity strategies.
Subscriber Post
7th June, 2022
Canada’s CDPQ pension fund has deepened its relationship with Dubai World – a state holding company – by buying up a 22% stake in a range of infrastructure assets in the Emirate.
Subscriber Post
25th May, 2022
India is set for another injection of sovereign capital in its fast-growing renewable energy sector with new pledges of investment by Canadian, Middle Eastern and Singaporean funds.
Subscriber Post
3rd May, 2022
Montreal’s mayor has left Québec province’s US$329 billion public pension fund in the lurch by shelving plans to develop a high-frequency light rail line in the provincial capital’s east end.
Subscriber Post
2nd May, 2022
Comparing returns across State-Owned Investors is never easy and it always takes a lot of assumptions and disclaimers. Yet, most funds have now reported their FY21 results, and we have looked at the average investment returns for the past six years (which we consider a fair investment cycle) across 20 major SWFs and 20 major PPFs in an apples-to-apples analysis.
Subscriber Post
15th April, 2022
This week the Indonesia Investment Authority (known as INA) signed two agreements to invest US$ 2.7 billion in three parts of the Trans-Sumatra toll-road as well as in two parts of the Trans-Java toll-road. When finished, the former will cover 2,818 km across the Western island while the latter will be smaller at 1,167 km and will link the country’s (current) capital city, Jakarta. The total cost of both projects is estimated at over US$ 40 billion.
Subscriber Post
22nd March, 2022
In a push to advance its infrastructure investments in India, Canadian public pension fund CDPQ has appointed Saurabh Agarwal as its Managing Director overseeing its operations in the country.
Subscriber Post
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
Subscriber Post
2nd March, 2022
Sovereign Investors have different degrees of exposure to Russia and to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). On the one hand, Middle Eastern funds have been increasing their allocation into the region for the past few years, and Asian countries continue to be some of Russia’s most important trading partners. On the other hand, European and, especially, North American, pensions had already been divesting positions due to geopolitical risk.
Subscriber Post
25th February, 2022
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has reported its best returns in more than a decade with a record C$78 billion (US$61 billion) of total asset growth to C$420 billion (US$328 billion).
Subscriber Post