20th October, 2026
Jio Platforms’ record IPO is bringing a second group of sovereign investors into the company while Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) retain the stakes they acquired during Reliance Industries’ 2020 fundraising. ADIA is also joining Government of Singapore, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in the anchor book.
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19th October, 2026
Norway is considering changes to its US$2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund that could reopen investment in Western defence companies, give Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) greater discretion regarding ethical exclusions and restrict publication of some company assessments. The proposals would change how one of sovereign investment universe’s leading ESG practitioners weighs corporate conduct against returns, market access and national security.
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8th October, 2026
Norway plans to use NOK608.4 billion (US$63.4 billion) of fund revenues in 2027, enough to finance more than one-quarter of state spending. The Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), meanwhile, is expected to start the year at around NOK22.4 trillion (US$2.3 trillion), while petroleum revenues will almost cover the cash transferred to the budget.
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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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16th September, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) could make its second-largest infrastructure commitment in Global SWF’s tracker through an EQT-led bid for Acciona Energía, adding exposure to a renewable energy company with 14.7GW of installed capacity.
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7th September, 2026
Norway is asking whether its US$2.44 trillion Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) needs US$100 billion more sovereign liquidity than its own stress tests suggest. NBIM says “no” and wants the benchmark to earn more from mortgage and government-related debt instead.
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4th September, 2026
Retail property has moved from the margins of sovereign real estate investment to one of its busiest segments in 2026.
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3rd September, 2026
Sovereign investors are adding to Alibaba while the public market sharply reprices earlier state-backed investment in Shein, exposing two very different routes into Chinese and China-linked equities.
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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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14th August, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) generated a record NOK1,753 billion (US$184.9 billion) investment gain in the first half of 2026, as a Q2 rally in Asian technology stocks pushed the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to a 9.4% return.
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5th August, 2026
Manipal Health Enterprises’ INR92.75 billion (US$977 million) initial public offering has attracted a slew of global state-owned investors with Singapore’s Temasek seeing a modest dilution of ownership, but foreign sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds still hold 50.3% of the newly listed hospital group.
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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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