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Fund of the Month (Mar'26): New Mexico State Investment Council (NMSIC)

1st March, 2026

New Mexico SIC has doubled in size in the past 3.5 years, due to an accelerated inflow of oil royalties. At the end of 2025, it was the second largest SWF in the US, with US$ 70 billion in AuM, just behind Alaska PFC. We were delighted to speak with the State Investment Officer, Mr. Jon Clark, about the accelerated growth of the fund, the current strategy to put that capital to work, and the future outlook.

US Federal SWF Mooted by Biden and Trump Raises More Qs than As

10th September, 2024

Despite being the world’s biggest economy attracting the bulk of sovereign capital, the US lacks a federal-level sovereign wealth fund of its own – but this could all be about the change with rivals in the presidential election pitching their visions of state capitalism.

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Lagos Joins a Surge of New Sub-National SWFs

17th October, 2022

Nigeria’s financial heart, Lagos, is launching a sovereign wealth fund of its own – the Lagos State Wealth Fund – representing the latest in a surge new sub-national SWFs, from Brazil to Malaysia.

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The Elephant in the Room - are Sovereign Investors beating the markets?

2nd May, 2022

Comparing returns across State-Owned Investors is never easy and it always takes a lot of assumptions and disclaimers. Yet, most funds have now reported their FY21 results, and we have looked at the average investment returns for the past six years (which we consider a fair investment cycle) across 20 major SWFs and 20 major PPFs in an apples-to-apples analysis.

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