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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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Who Owns SpaceX? Biggest State-Owned Backers - and the Ones Who Avoided Musk's IPO

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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Japan's US$1.9trn GPIF Turns Equity Rally Into Bond Rebalancing

7th July, 2026

GPIF’s FY2025 result was a major rebound, but it did not mark a change in strategy.

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CY25 Early Results: Allocation Structure, Currency Policy and Mandate Discipline

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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China–US frictions prompt state-owned investors to adjust private equity exposure

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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DeepSeek Disruption: Magnificent 7 Crash Exposes Sovereign Wealth Fund Risks

28th January, 2025

The global markets have been rocked by the seismic impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has upended the prevailing assumptions about the cost and dominance of artificial intelligence.

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Yen Bounce Back Hits GPIF's Return, Potentially Spurring More Alternatives Investments

5th November, 2024

The rise in the value of the yen and poor performance in domestic equities has delivered Japan’s gigantic Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) its biggest quarterly loss since the pandemic struck in 2020 with a return of -3.6%.

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Japan's GPIF Gains APG's Support in Infra Diversification

10th April, 2024

Japan’s US$1.48 trillion goliath Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has joined forces with Europe’s biggest public pension fund manager, the Netherlands’ US$562 billion APG, to surge into global infrastructure markets.

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Japan’s GPIF Breaks JPY200trn, Prepares to Pile into PE, RE and Infra

13th July, 2023

Japan’s JPY200.1 trillion (US$1.45 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) continued to weather geopolitical turmoil and a high inflation environment, notching up a 1.5% return for FY2022 (to end-March 2023) from a highly liquid portfolio that was boosted by strong performance in domestic public equity.

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Private Markets and US$ Strength Supports SWF Returns

8th February, 2023

The first flurry of full-year returns results for sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds shows a large spread of results, but is broadly in line with year-end estimates in Global SWF’s 2023 Annual Report.

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The Battle of Goliaths: Why GPIF is Outperforming NBIM in 2022

7th November, 2022

Japan’s goliath US$1.34 trillion pension fund, the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), has racked up an impressive performance in the face of major challenges, with a return for Q1-Q3 of the current calendar year of -3.8% - thanks to yen depreciation, a high allocation to fixed income and the Tosho’s relatively benign performance.

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NPS loses US$ 57 billion in the first half of 2022, alternatives reach 15.3%

29th August, 2022

One of the world’s largest pension schemes, South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), released on Monday its latest results and the numbers are worrisome. In the first half of 2022, the investment manager had an investment return of -8.0%, translating into a loss of US$ 57 billion for South Korean pensioners.

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