13th October, 2025
Last week, Global SWF presented its 2025 MENA Special Playbook at an event co-hosted with American law firm Morgan Lewis, at the Rosewood Hotel (ADGM) in Abu Dhabi. This is the fifth SWF conference organized by Global SWF in the past 15 months, after two similar workshops in New York, and two more in Singapore.
8th October, 2025
Across the biggest sovereign wealth funds, leaders have reached a common view of 2025: the world is at the beginning of a long period of uncertainty in which debt, deglobalization and geopolitics keep volatility elevated, while technology - especially AI - creates durable pockets of growth.
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7th October, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is lining up its first euro-denominated green bond, split into three- and seven-year tranches with Crédit Agricole CIB, JPMorgan and Société Générale running the books.
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30th September, 2025
Electronic Arts is going private in the largest leveraged buyout on record. The US$55 billion deal, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, pulls one of gaming’s most influential publishers off public markets and puts it in the center of Riyadh’s Vision 2030 industrial strategy.
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3rd September, 2025
Thames Water’s slow-motion crisis has become the Rorschach test for how attractive - or not - UK regulated infrastructure is to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs).
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26th August, 2025
DP World’s 30-year, US$800 million Tartus port concession deal is Syria’s first real post-war anchor and is meant to pull in bigger balance sheets and re-open the economy, just months after the Russian navy withdrew following the collapse of the Assad regime.
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15th August, 2025
While US equities recovered from the shockwaves of President Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” trade tariff proclamation, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) chose instead to shrink its US public equity footprint by about 6.6% from US$25.5 billion to US$23.8 billion.
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14th August, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) reported another year of stellar growth in its 2024 annual report with some strong headline numbers: AUM surged 19% to US$913 billion, cumulative domestic investments since 2021 topped US$171 billion, and PIF now represents around 10% of the Kingdom’s non-oil GDP.
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8th August, 2025
Football transfer windows rarely generate headlines in boardrooms and among institutional investors, but the arrival of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has changed that calculus entirely.
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2nd July, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) just dropped its 2024 numbers - and on the surface, they look stellar with assets up 18% to SAR4.32 trillion (US$1.15 trillion).
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24th June, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) signaled a further development in its financing strategy with the launch of a dual commercial paper (CP) program in both US and Euro markets via offshore special-purpose vehicles.
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16th June, 2025
Today, Global SWF is pleased to announce the leaders of its 2025 assessment of best practices among Sovereign Investors, known as the GSR Scoreboard for Governance, Sustainability and Resilience.