18th May, 2026
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds saw their portfolios of US Equities decrease in value significantly during the first quarter of 2026, due to the War in Iran and the subsequent effect in oil prices and global financial markets. According to the quarterly filings released by SEC this week, the average holdings of Sovereign Investors would have fallen 12% by March 31, after all investments and exits.
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13th May, 2026
Mubadala’s US$325 million investment in Hornsea 3 adds to Abu Dhabi’s position in UK clean power as Britain continues to rely on long-duration capital to finance the electricity transition.
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28th April, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s brainchild Canada Strong Fund is not Canada’s answer to Norway’s US$2 trillion Government Pension Fund Global - it is a different kind of sovereign vehicle, a leaner federal equity investor for a deficit-running economy that wants to turn public capital into ownership stakes in strategic domestic assets.
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5th March, 2026
The Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative (CAP Invest) brings together nine Australian superannuation funds and investment platforms and nine Canadian public pension organisations in a framework intended to facilitate dialogue with governments and encourage cross-border investment.
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2nd March, 2026
The first group of major sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds to report calendar year 2025 results shows that performance dispersion was primarily structural with high-equity savings funds such as Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSuper) and Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) clustered in the mid-teens.
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11th February, 2026
Over the past two years, China–US tensions have increasingly shaped the portfolio strategies public pension funds and sovereign wealth funds leading to a structural recalibration in how China and the US are accessed, financed and exited.
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24th November, 2025
Canada’s big public funds are sitting on sizeable AI-linked positions in their US equity portfolios, which could result in losses of at least US$55 billion across the Maple 8 in the event of a dot-com-style crash – implying a direct hit on combined assets of around 2.5-3.0%, even before contagion effects are factored in.
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9th October, 2025
India’s competition regulator has cleared a fresh slate of minority stakes that link Temasek and La Caisse’s real-estate arm, Ivanhoé Cambridge, to a network of Singapore-incorporated vehicles holding Indian office assets.
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3rd September, 2025
Thames Water’s slow-motion crisis has become the Rorschach test for how attractive - or not - UK regulated infrastructure is to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs).
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7th August, 2025
Norway’s US$1.8 trillion Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) - the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - has just launched a fresh review of its Israeli holdings following revelations that it raised its stake in Bet Shemesh Engines, a jet engine supplier to the Israeli military, from 1.3% to over 2% in 2024.
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18th June, 2025
It’s official: Ivanhoé Cambridge, the iconic real estate arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), is being absorbed into its parent.
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16th June, 2025
Today, Global SWF is pleased to announce the leaders of its 2025 assessment of best practices among Sovereign Investors, known as the GSR Scoreboard for Governance, Sustainability and Resilience.