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GIC Eyes Rio Tinto Infrastructure as Miner Recycles Capital

5th October, 2026

GIC is looking at a new way to gain exposure to growth in the resources sector without buying the mines themselves.

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India Targets SWFs in Next Stage of Bond Market Opening

23rd September, 2026

India already attracts more than INR5 trillion (US$52 billion) through registered SWF vehicles, but only INR12.66 billion (US$132 million) is held in debt. South Korea’s NPS is now seeking approval to invest in Indian government bonds through a new lower-compliance regime for long-term institutional capital.

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State Capital Bucks Private Equity’s Deal Slump but Follows Its Shift to Scale

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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ADIC Commits US$1 Billion to Dymon as State Investors Scale Hedge Fund Exposure

20th August, 2026

Some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds are concentrating more capital with hedge fund managers, with the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) becoming one of the biggest new sources of allocations in 2026.

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SWFs Bolster AI: GIC Extends Anthropic Bet Into Claude Data Centres

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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GIC reports a strong FY26, new AuM estimated at US$ 1.16 trillion

24th July, 2026

On Friday, GIC released the annual report for the fiscal year ended on March 31, 2026. The document reveals a very strong year, with the Singaporean SWF reaping the rewards of a portfolio increasingly focused on US markets, on equities, and on technology.

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Guns N’ Royalties: State Investors Turn Songs and Science into Income

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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GIC Puts Private Markets Under One Investment Chief

14th July, 2026

GIC is adding senior oversight across its private market teams while keeping their chief investment officers directly accountable to Group Chief Investment Officer Bryan Yeo.

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Sovereign Investors Move Deeper Into India’s Capital System

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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QIA’s RWE Deal Shows Sovereign Investors are Backing Grid Infra to Support Renewables Build-Out

29th June, 2026

Qatar Investment Authority’s EUR432 million (US$490 million) participation in RWE’s capital raise is a bet on the grid bottleneck behind Europe’s energy transition.

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SWFs Use Secondaries to Reprice Private Market Exposure

23rd June, 2026

After years of pouring capital into private markets, sovereign wealth funds are facing a less comfortable phase. Fund stakes bought for long horizons are staying on balance sheets for longer than expected, and some are now being sold before managers can deliver exits.

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Sovereign Investors Prepare for Payback as Giga-IPOs Hit the Markets

9th June, 2026

This week could be historical for financial markets as SpaceX kicks off a series of “Giga-IPOs”, with valuations of US$ 1 trillion or more, and with unprecedented fundraising targets. Elon Musk’s conglomerate, which includes X (formerly Twitter) and xAI is currently the most valuable private company in the world at US$ 1 trillion and is targeting a value of US$ 1.75 trillion when it gets listed on June 12 on Nasdaq.

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