25th November, 2025
When Brookfield Asset Management unveiled a new US$100 billion programme to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure last week, one name in the press release signalled how far the balance of power in AI has shifted: the Kuwait Investment Authority.
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11th November, 2025
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is weighing a tactical increase in its domestic equity exposure after this year’s sharp stock market rally pushed the fund up against its own allocation limits, forcing a collision between long-term diversification policy and short-term political and market pressures.
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22nd October, 2025
AustralianSuper, Australia’s largest pension fund, has launched a new UK Living Platform with an initial GBP500 million commitment, adding to around GBP14 billion of commitments by global state-owned investors to the UK's housing market in the past seven years.
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21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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9th September, 2025
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a +4.08% money-weighted return in the first half of 2025, generating KRW 49.8 trillion (US$36.9 billion) of investment income.
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7th March, 2025
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) marked a record-breaking 15% investment return in 2024, representing KRW 160 trillion (US$110 billion).
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12th February, 2025
South Korea’s US$827 billion National Pension Service (NPS) is making some of its boldest investment moves yet.
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8th January, 2025
South Korea’s pension system is navigating a period of transformation against a backdrop of political upheaval and global economic challenges.
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18th October, 2024
The KRW1.2 trillion (US$875 million) Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has paid to external managers for its global equities portfolio over the past three years is not good value for money, according to a lawmaker from the country’s ruling People Power Party, reports The Korea Times.
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30th August, 2024
South Korea’s National Pension Fund (NPS) is set for an overhaul as it struggles to prove it will provide long-term financial security for the country’s ageing population, although it logged a strong performance in H1 2024 with a return of 9.71% led by robust growth in public equity.
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15th July, 2024
One of the world’s biggest public pension funds, South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), is boosting external management of its domestic private equity holdings while at the same time clawing back control over its overseas public equity allocations as it makes benchmark-beating returns its priority.
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2nd May, 2024
South Korea’s goliath National Pension Service (NPS) is making its biggest allocation to external managers with its plans to invest US$1.1 billion with South Korea-based general partners (GPs).
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