18th May, 2026
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds saw their portfolios of US Equities decrease in value significantly during the first quarter of 2026, due to the War in Iran and the subsequent effect in oil prices and global financial markets. According to the quarterly filings released by SEC this week, the average holdings of Sovereign Investors would have fallen 12% by March 31, after all investments and exits.
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13th May, 2026
Mubadala’s US$325 million investment in Hornsea 3 adds to Abu Dhabi’s position in UK clean power as Britain continues to rely on long-duration capital to finance the electricity transition.
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24th April, 2026
NBIM and ABP both reported negative first quarter results, but the losses affected them differently.
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6th March, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has acquired a 33.3% stake in a portfolio of operating renewable energy assets in North America alongside Brookfield and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), marking its first renewable infrastructure investment in the region.
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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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29th January, 2026
NBIM delivered a 15.1% return in 2025, following 13.1% in 2024, extending the rebound that began after the sharp drawdown of 2022. In historical terms, 2025 sits well above the fund’s long-run annualised return (around 6.6% since 1998), confirming that the last three years have been unusually supportive for a portfolio with large listed equity exposure.
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23rd January, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is preparing to close its dedicated real estate office in Paris, consolidating its European unlisted property operations in London as part of a wider shift in how the fund manages real assets.
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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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18th December, 2025
For years, the phrase “a Falklands sovereign wealth fund” has been floated like a thought experiment: a hypothetical Norway-in-miniature that might one day turn offshore hydrocarbons into a long-term public endowment.
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10th November, 2025
For years, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has tried to be predictable. It has presented itself as a long-term, rules-based investor whose job is to turn oil and gas revenues into broad, steady exposure to the global economy.
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30th October, 2025
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) delivered a 5.8% return in the third quarter of 2025, with equities up 7.7%, fixed income up 1.4%, unlisted real estate up 1.1%, and unlisted renewables up 0.3%.
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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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