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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15th January, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s IPO pipeline for 2026 is sizeable by any regional standard. But the headline number of listings matters less than who is driving them, and why. At the centre of that story sits the Public Investment Fund (PIF).
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6th January, 2026
The Public Investment Fund remains the controlling shareholder of Lucid Group, and its long-term strategy toward the investment continues to attract scrutiny.
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5th January, 2026
In 2025, sovereign investors channelled more than US$140 billion into the US economy, lifting the country’s share of global sovereign deal activity to over 50%, as revealed in Global SWF’s 2026 Annual Report published last week.
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15th December, 2025
A reported agreement for Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal – head of Kingdom Holdings - to acquire Al-Hilal indicates that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is trying to move from building the Saudi Pro League to divesting in order to attract private capital, while ensuring that prestige assets are maintained by figures close to the government.
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9th December, 2025
Paramount Skydance’s hostile offer for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is an example of how Gulf sovereign wealth capital is being used in politically sensitive US sectors as funding partners without formal influence.
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4th December, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is deploying only around 20% of its capital abroad, but within that slice, Developed Asia has become a small but strategically important cluster.
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2nd December, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is at the centre of two very different stories. Abroad, the Public Investment Fund (PIF) is backing the record US$55bn leveraged buyout of video-game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), reinforcing its image as a bold global investor. At home, large domestic “giga-projects” are being written down, timelines are slipping and the fund is borrowing more heavily than in the early years of Vision 2030.
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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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17th November, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has just done something that, on paper, looks like a rapid exit from US public equities.
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13th November, 2025
In the past two years, public-to-private (P2P) deals have re-emerged as one of the most reliable channels for private capital deployment at a time of volatility, with sovereign wealth funds serving as anchors and cornerstone investors in consortium take-privates.
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12th November, 2025
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and ORIX have launched a Japan-only buyout vehicle, OQCI Fund LP, at the yen-equivalent of US$2.5 billion.
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