16th May, 2024
TPG Rise Climate vehicle has won another state-owned investor for its carbon-cutting mission with the US$320 billion Saudi public pension fund manager Hassana – part of the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) – making forming a US$1.5 billion partnership, including a “substantial anchor commitment” to the new Transition Infrastructure fund and an allocation to the TPG Rise Climate II fund.
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6th May, 2024
The fifth edition of the GSR Scoreboard will be released in eight weeks’ time, on Monday, July 1. Since 2020, Global SWF has issued an annual assessment of the best practices of state-owned investors around Governance, Sustainability, and Resilience.
16th April, 2024
PSP Investments’ acquisition of around 8,000 hectares of farmland in New South Wales is an example of a tide of capital by Canadian state-owned investors in Australia’s vast agricultural sector.
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20th February, 2024
Indian highways could receive another capital boost from Canada, despite the geopolitical ructions between Delhi and Ottawa, with CDPQ among those expressing interest in acquiring a roads portfolio from India’s quasi-sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).
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15th November, 2023
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund manager continues to pile tens of millions into Boston real estate with its latest acquisition being a life sciences campus that is in the early stages of development.
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27th June, 2023
Canadian provincial pension fund British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) reported a 3.5% return for FY2022/23 with notably strong performances in infrastructure and emerging markets.
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9th June, 2023
The latest annual results of Canada’s federal-level public pension funds are now out and depict a significant difference in performance between the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) – with infrastructure proving crucial to achieving higher yields.
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8th June, 2023
A slew of public pension fund giants have swung their weight behind Just Climate’s Climate Assets Fund I (CAF1), which has exceeded its US$1 billion target by 50% and marks the latest of several sovereign-backed billion-plus funds.
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31st May, 2023
On Tuesday evening, AIMCo announced its first hire in Singapore – and to the surprise of many, it came from the global leadership group of GIC, the flagship Sovereign Wealth Fund of the island-nation.
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4th May, 2023
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC has joined Canadian, Dutch and Abu Dhabi peers in Europe’s expansion of electric railways, a growth area that is backed by a modal shift to rail as a key enabler of the decarbonisation of supply chains.
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24th April, 2023
CDPQ’s decision to deploy US$11.2 billion in European private markets via an expanded London-based team follows a trend among Canada’s Maple 8 public pension funds seen in recent years.
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2nd March, 2023
Canadian public pension fund PSP is aiming for the skies with a US$3 billion deal alongside EQT Active Core Infrastructure to buy out the NASDAQ-listed Radius Global Infrastructure.
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