3rd February, 2026
A consortium led by KKR and Singtel is in advanced discussions to acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) in a transaction that could value the company at more than US$10 billion.
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19th January, 2026
When concerns began to circulate late last year that the Trump administration was preparing to upend the tax treatment of SWFs, the reaction saw lawyers issue alerts, investors reviewing strategies and fund managers fielded anxious calls.
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14th January, 2026
When Singapore’s Parliament returned this week, MPs lined up questions about the performance of GIC and Temasek, two institutions central to the city-state’s fiscal model and its reputation for technocratic stewardship. The immediate trigger was a run of media comparisons suggesting that Singapore’s flagship investors have lagged global peers and public market benchmarks over the past decade.
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5th January, 2026
In 2025, sovereign investors channelled more than US$140 billion into the US economy, lifting the country’s share of global sovereign deal activity to over 50%, as revealed in Global SWF’s 2026 Annual Report published last week.
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13th November, 2025
In the past two years, public-to-private (P2P) deals have re-emerged as one of the most reliable channels for private capital deployment at a time of volatility, with sovereign wealth funds serving as anchors and cornerstone investors in consortium take-privates.
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29th October, 2025
Singapore’s GIC is exploring the sale of around US$1 billion of private-equity fund interests, a move that aligns with how the sovereign wealth fund has used the secondaries market over the past few years to fine-tune exposure and recycle capital.
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23rd October, 2025
Blackstone and TPG’s US$18.3 billion take-private of Hologic - backed by “significant” minority cheques from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Singapore’s GIC – underlines the trend towards repeat, programmatic co-investment by sovereign funds alongside tier-one sponsors, delivering cheaper, faster equity and the follow-on capacity needed for platform growth.
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22nd October, 2025
AustralianSuper, Australia’s largest pension fund, has launched a new UK Living Platform with an initial GBP500 million commitment, adding to around GBP14 billion of commitments by global state-owned investors to the UK's housing market in the past seven years.
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21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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8th October, 2025
Across the biggest sovereign wealth funds, leaders have reached a common view of 2025: the world is at the beginning of a long period of uncertainty in which debt, deglobalization and geopolitics keep volatility elevated, while technology - especially AI - creates durable pockets of growth.
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25th September, 2025
This week, the Dutch government announced the partial sale of TenneT’s German operations to a consortium of long-term investors: Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Singapore’s GIC, and Dutch pension fund APG.
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17th September, 2025
GIC could be about to make the biggest commercial divestment in sovereign wealth fund history as it seeks to recycle assets, shore up its resilience and redeploy capital into new strategic sectors.
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