20th October, 2026
Jio Platforms’ record IPO is bringing a second group of sovereign investors into the company while Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) retain the stakes they acquired during Reliance Industries’ 2020 fundraising. ADIA is also joining Government of Singapore, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in the anchor book.
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16th October, 2026
Governments and state entities are looking further afield for funding as artificial intelligence, infrastructure, defence and energy compete for global capital. Citi says borrowers are examining renminbi, Australian dollar, Hong Kong dollar and Singapore dollar markets as financing needs rise and borrowing costs remain high.
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13th October, 2026
Syria’s Sovereign Fund (SSF) has expanded beyond the property portfolio disclosed earlier this year, taking control of businesses recovered from Assad-era owners while building joint ventures with Gulf companies. The latest transfers include 32 companies linked to businessman Samer Foz, adding industrial, commercial, services and banking interests to a portfolio previously centred on land and public property.
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12th October, 2026
Masayoshi Son is again seeking Gulf sovereign capital on the scale of the original Vision Fund. Nine years on, its 1.28x TVPI gives prospective backers a clear benchmark for another US$100 billion proposition.
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2nd October, 2026
The 2026 MENA Playbook released today by Global SWF highlights the state of play of Middle Eastern Sovereign Investors as at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
30th September, 2026
Temasek is turning years of co-investment with Gulf sovereign funds into a permanent regional presence. The Singapore state investor will open offices in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in the first half of 2027 and deepen engagement in Qatar, bringing its own investment teams closer to QIA, Mubadala, KIA, MGX and L’IMAD. Its disclosed direct Gulf portfolio remains limited, but the relationships are already well established.
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28th September, 2026
PIF is drawing banks, private developers and prospective buyers further into its Saudi portfolio as its 2026–2030 strategy takes shape. After years of using its own balance sheet to build companies and industries, more of the next stage will depend on capital coming from elsewhere.
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24th September, 2026
The conflict is raising the value of infrastructural resilience, spare capacity and regional connectivity, bringing economic security further into Gulf sovereign investment decisions.
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21st September, 2026
The Paramount–Warner merger provides a striking test of how far Gulf sovereign capital can reach into US cultural industries. The Hollywood sign has become shorthand for US cultural reach. The deal would place Gulf sovereign capital deep inside the economics of that system, with voting and editorial authority remaining in US hands.
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14th September, 2026
Private equity entered 2026 with more money moving through fewer deals. KPMG’s latest Pulse of Private Equity puts global investment at US$1 trillion across 9,294 deals in H1 2026, while the rolling 12-month deal count fell to 20,105, its lowest level in more than five years.
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9th September, 2026
Saudi AI platform HUMAIN is an example of how PIF intends to finance the next phase of Saudi industrial development; although the fund provided the initial sovereign capital and had helped to secure technology partners, HUMAIN is aiming at a structure in which third parties contribute 70% of the financing.
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2nd September, 2026
Two supertankers carrying a combined 4 million barrels of Saudi crude were struck by unidentified projectiles while leaving the Strait of Hormuz on September 1, reinforcing the prospect of prolonged disruption six months into the Iran war.
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