15th September, 2026
Canada’s push to bring more pension capital into the domestic economy has moved decisively from debate to deployment. Ontario Teachers’ and OMERS have each committed C$10 billion (US$7.2 billion), putting real money behind years of pressure for the Maple 8 to invest more at home. The 10-year record suggests that higher domestic exposure has not consistently come at the expense of total-fund returns.
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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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8th September, 2026
Canada’s largest public pension funds have become more exposed to the United States since Donald Trump’s November 2024 election, even as tariffs, threats against Canada and wider policy uncertainty have increased the risks attached to the market.
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4th September, 2026
Retail property has moved from the margins of sovereign real estate investment to one of its busiest segments in 2026.
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5th August, 2026
Manipal Health Enterprises’ INR92.75 billion (US$977 million) initial public offering has attracted a slew of global state-owned investors with Singapore’s Temasek seeing a modest dilution of ownership, but foreign sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds still hold 50.3% of the newly listed hospital group.
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30th June, 2026
India has doubled its allocation to the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), giving the sovereign-anchored platform launched just over a decade ago a stronger base for its second infrastructure vintage after a run of exits in renewables, roads and smart meters.
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26th June, 2026
Canada’s public pension model still looks sound, but FY2026 showed why these funds cannot be judged by headline returns alone.
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18th May, 2026
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds saw their portfolios of US Equities decrease in value significantly during the first quarter of 2026, due to the War in Iran and the subsequent effect in oil prices and global financial markets. According to the quarterly filings released by SEC this week, the average holdings of Sovereign Investors would have fallen 12% by March 31, after all investments and exits.
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5th March, 2026
The Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative (CAP Invest) brings together nine Australian superannuation funds and investment platforms and nine Canadian public pension organisations in a framework intended to facilitate dialogue with governments and encourage cross-border investment.
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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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