6th February, 2025
As global markets experienced turbulence in 2024, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) navigated shifting economic conditions with varying degrees of success.
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28th January, 2025
The global markets have been rocked by the seismic impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has upended the prevailing assumptions about the cost and dominance of artificial intelligence.
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20th December, 2024
Earlier this month in Riyadh, during the 7th Annual One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds (OPSWF) Summit, Global SWF recognized the excellence of New Zealand Superannuation Fund (“NZ Super”) around governance, sustainability and resilience (GSR) practices.
9th September, 2024
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) continues to beat peers with another strong result boosted by public equities which enabled it to report a 14.9% return in the year to end-June, helping to boost coffers by NZ$11 billion (US$6.8 billion) to reach NZ$77 billion (US$47.4 billion) in FY2023/24.
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1st July, 2024
We are delighted to present the 2024 GSR Scoreboard, the most comprehensive analysis on the Governance, Sustainability and Resilience (“GSR”) practices and efforts of the world’s major State-Owned Investors (“SOIs”), including Sovereign Wealth Funds (“SWFs”) and Public Pension Funds (“PPFs).
1st July, 2024
One of the leaders of this year’s assessment is the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super), which has for the past two years achieved a perfect score and is usually cited as an example of best practices globally.
13th June, 2024
Two Australian sovereign wealth funds - Future Fund and QIC - have teamed up to buy the EastLink toll road network from their New Zealand counterpart NZSuper and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America.
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6th May, 2024
The fifth edition of the GSR Scoreboard will be released in eight weeks’ time, on Monday, July 1. Since 2020, Global SWF has issued an annual assessment of the best practices of state-owned investors around Governance, Sustainability, and Resilience.
3rd April, 2024
After five years serving as NZ Super’s CIO, Stephen Gilmore is packing his bags for California where he is set to start his new job at the US$494 billion CalPERS, the US’s largest public pension fund and a massive step up from the US$70 billion New Zealand sovereign wealth fund.
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27th March, 2024
NZ Super’s Guardians have appointed Jo Townsend as CEO as the Crown entity enters a new era, in which it is showing increasing interest in originating its own direct investments and acquisition of foreign assets.
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13th September, 2023
Fuelled by growth in global equities, NZ Super reported a barnstorming performance in the financial year ending June 30 with an 11.9% return – the best return of its peers reporting over the same period.
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4th September, 2023
New Zealand’s state-owned investor, NZ Super, has taken a bold step with a direct investment worth almost US$300 million in financial services provider Euroclear.
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