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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6th November, 2025
By any measure, Egypt in 2025 is still navigating a fragile recovery. It has been left structurally dependent on external support following a decade of repeated currency crises, surging external debt, inflation shocks, and fallout from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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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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