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.
3rd June, 2025
India is pulling out all the stops to court Saudi Arabia’s mighty Public Investment Fund (PIF). In a fast-paced bid to unlock up to US$100 billion of Saudi investment, New Delhi has proposed a 10-year tax holiday on profits and sweeping exemptions on interest, dividends, and capital gains for PIF.
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23rd May, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) may be best known for its headline-making megaprojects and global real estate deals, but its quietly shifting US public equities portfolio offers a revealing window into how the kingdom is refining its investment strategy.
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20th May, 2025
With the French budget in crisis and foreign direct investment into startups falling off a cliff, President Emmanuel Macron is doubling down on his most reliable card: foreign capital from sovereign wealth giants.
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