5th November, 2026
Democrats have won control of both houses of Congress in midterm elections dominated by the Iran war and high living costs. President Trump has spent much of his second term courting Gulf investors and forging close personal ties with the region's leaders.
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30th October, 2026
Higher oil and gas prices have not benefited Gulf sovereign funds equally. Businesses that can keep producing and delivering scarce supplies have gained most. Reliance on Hormuz, force majeure and physical damage have reduced what investors will pay for Gulf operations.
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22nd October, 2026
IFM Investors has agreed to acquire the 63.9% of Associated British Ports (ABP) held by CPP Investments and OMERS, giving a fund managed by IFM control of the UK's largest ports group.
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2nd October, 2026
The 2026 MENA Playbook released today by Global SWF highlights the state of play of Middle Eastern Sovereign Investors as at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
30th September, 2026
Temasek is turning years of co-investment with Gulf sovereign funds into a permanent regional presence. The Singapore state investor will open offices in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in the first half of 2027 and deepen engagement in Qatar, bringing its own investment teams closer to QIA, Mubadala, KIA, MGX and L’IMAD. Its disclosed direct Gulf portfolio remains limited, but the relationships are already well established.
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24th September, 2026
The conflict is raising the value of infrastructural resilience, spare capacity and regional connectivity, bringing economic security further into Gulf sovereign investment decisions.
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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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2nd September, 2026
Two supertankers carrying a combined 4 million barrels of Saudi crude were struck by unidentified projectiles while leaving the Strait of Hormuz on September 1, reinforcing the prospect of prolonged disruption six months into the Iran war.
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27th July, 2026
Wren House Infrastructure Management’s reported bid for Lightsource would take the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) subsidiary further into the development, financing and ownership of new infrastructure.
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5th June, 2026
Three months into the Iran war, the Gulf is no longer in the first shock phase, but it is not back to normal. Energy flows have partly adapted, sovereign funding markets remain open, and the largest Gulf SWFs are still deploying capital.
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14th May, 2026
The Q1 rise in disclosed Gulf holdings of Chinese A-shares was mainly driven by ADIA.
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4th May, 2026
Kuwait Investment Authority’s (KIA) reported entry into Seoul’s Yeouido IFC points to continued external capital deployment at a time when Kuwait’s oil export system is under acute pressure.
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