15th September, 2026
Canada’s push to bring more pension capital into the domestic economy has moved decisively from debate to deployment. Ontario Teachers’ and OMERS have each committed C$10 billion (US$7.2 billion), putting real money behind years of pressure for the Maple 8 to invest more at home. The 10-year record suggests that higher domestic exposure has not consistently come at the expense of total-fund returns.
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14th September, 2026
Private equity entered 2026 with more money moving through fewer deals. KPMG’s latest Pulse of Private Equity puts global investment at US$1 trillion across 9,294 deals in H1 2026, while the rolling 12-month deal count fell to 20,105, its lowest level in more than five years.
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8th September, 2026
Canada’s largest public pension funds have become more exposed to the United States since Donald Trump’s November 2024 election, even as tariffs, threats against Canada and wider policy uncertainty have increased the risks attached to the market.
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28th August, 2026
CPP Investments is taking a larger role in ReNew Energy Global after agreeing with founder and CEO Sumant Sinha to buy out public shareholders at US$7.02 a share. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Japanese utility JERA will keep their stakes, leaving the Indian renewables group backed by investors willing to provide further equity after its Nasdaq listing failed to deliver the valuation needed to support its expansion.
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24th August, 2026
CPP Investments is placing more capital with Blackstone, KKR and EQT to reach manager-led infrastructure transactions, but is still retaining direct control where it can pair capital with an experienced operator.
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17th August, 2026
Global SWF has identified US$41.7 billion of SpaceX shares held by sovereign wealth and public pension funds at the end of June. Most of the value is concentrated in investors that entered SpaceX or xAI before the IPO, while several large funds maintain substantial Magnificent Seven exposure but hold little or no SpaceX.
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12th August, 2026
Singapore’s GIC is extending its investment in Anthropic into the infrastructure required to run Claude, joining Macquarie Asset Management in a new data centre platform dedicated to the US artificial intelligence company. Global SWF estimates GIC has already invested around US$ 6.3 billion in Anthropic, making it the company’s largest sovereign investor.
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3rd August, 2026
CPP Investments’ C$1 billion (US$714 million) commitment to Tarchon, a proposed subsea power link between the UK and Germany, is a gamble on the infrastructure needed to move electricity between European markets at a time when energy prices are buffeted by geopolitical risks and transition needs.
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23rd July, 2026
A portfolio containing “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Bad Romance” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” might sound like the soundtrack to a distressed assets meeting, but for GIC and Sony Music Group it is the background music of a royalty portfolio reportedly worth close to US$4 billion.
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21st July, 2026
CPP Investments is expanding its US industrial property exposure through the US$5.2 billion take-private of LXP Industrial Trust. The acquisition adds to a wider rotation from offices and retail into logistics, data centres and housing.
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13th July, 2026
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Singapore’s GIC and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) are buying into India’s savings shift. Their bids for the anchor tranche of SBI Funds Management’s IPO add the country’s largest asset manager to portfolios already spread across financial services, infrastructure, property and private equity.
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6th July, 2026
CPP Investments’ US$1.75 billion commitment to EQT’s AI infrastructure strategy is an example of how state-owned investors are moving beyond data centre exposure and into capacity underwriting.
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