24th November, 2025
Canada’s big public funds are sitting on sizeable AI-linked positions in their US equity portfolios, which could result in losses of at least US$55 billion across the Maple 8 in the event of a dot-com-style crash – implying a direct hit on combined assets of around 2.5-3.0%, even before contagion effects are factored in.
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22nd October, 2025
AustralianSuper, Australia’s largest pension fund, has launched a new UK Living Platform with an initial GBP500 million commitment, adding to around GBP14 billion of commitments by global state-owned investors to the UK's housing market in the past seven years.
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7th August, 2025
Norway’s US$1.8 trillion Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) - the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - has just launched a fresh review of its Israeli holdings following revelations that it raised its stake in Bet Shemesh Engines, a jet engine supplier to the Israeli military, from 1.3% to over 2% in 2024.
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16th April, 2025
Canada’s biggest pension funds aren’t panicking - yet. But they are pulling back. And the reason is spelled in bold across every boardroom on Bay Street: Trump.
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4th April, 2025
In a market defined by long-term stability and regulated returns, Australia’s Transgrid has emerged as a crown jewel — and a paradox.
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21st February, 2025
Canada’s largest pension funds are stepping up their climate commitments, but progress remains uneven.
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28th January, 2025
The global markets have been rocked by the seismic impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has upended the prevailing assumptions about the cost and dominance of artificial intelligence.
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10th January, 2025
In just the first two weeks of 2025, Canadian pension funds have solidified their position as global infrastructure powerhouses.
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1st August, 2024
PSP Investments manages the pensions of the members of the public sector pension plans of the federal public service, the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Reserve Force. In March 2023, PSP was also appointed as the investment manager of the newly established CA$ 15 billion (US$ 10.8 billion) Canada Growth Fund mandated to help Canada speed up the deployment of clean technologies. PSP has maintained an impressive performance in the past decade, and we were delighted to speak with its CIO, Mr. Eduard Van Gelderen, about the fund’s strategy and objectives.
26th July, 2024
An investment of more than US$600 million in US trailer lessor Transportation Equipment Network (TEN) by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is the latest development in sovereign investor involvement in the transportation leasing sector.
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18th June, 2024
Canada’s biggest public pension fund, CPP Investments, could be close to acquiring a INR100 billion (US$1.2 billion) Indian roads portfolio from India’s quasi-sovereign wealth fund the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), but is up against Macquarie and infrastructure investment trust Cube Highways at the advanced bidding stage.
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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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