5th November, 2026
Democrats have won control of both houses of Congress in midterm elections dominated by the Iran war and high living costs. President Trump has spent much of his second term courting Gulf investors and forging close personal ties with the region's leaders.
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4th November, 2026
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is extending its sovereign AI infrastructure strategy into the UK through a proposed GBP20 billion (US$26.82 billion) data centre development at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.
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30th October, 2026
Higher oil and gas prices have not benefited Gulf sovereign funds equally. Businesses that can keep producing and delivering scarce supplies have gained most. Reliance on Hormuz, force majeure and physical damage have reduced what investors will pay for Gulf operations.
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28th October, 2026
Doha Investment is adding QAR2.4 billion (US$659 million) of new cash to Qatar’s Active Asset Management Initiative, almost doubling it to QAR5 billion (US$1.37 billion) less than six weeks after the domestic investment platform launched. The programme is small beside Doha Investment’s estimated US$193 billion portfolio, but it offers an early sign of how Qatar plans to use the new institution both to manage state-owned assets and to bring more institutional investors into the market.
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20th October, 2026
Jio Platforms’ record IPO is bringing a second group of sovereign investors into the company while Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) retain the stakes they acquired during Reliance Industries’ 2020 fundraising. ADIA is also joining Government of Singapore, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in the anchor book.
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13th October, 2026
Syria’s Sovereign Fund (SSF) has expanded beyond the property portfolio disclosed earlier this year, taking control of businesses recovered from Assad-era owners while building joint ventures with Gulf companies. The latest transfers include 32 companies linked to businessman Samer Foz, adding industrial, commercial, services and banking interests to a portfolio previously centred on land and public property.
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2nd October, 2026
The 2026 MENA Playbook released today by Global SWF highlights the state of play of Middle Eastern Sovereign Investors as at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
30th September, 2026
Temasek is turning years of co-investment with Gulf sovereign funds into a permanent regional presence. The Singapore state investor will open offices in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in the first half of 2027 and deepen engagement in Qatar, bringing its own investment teams closer to QIA, Mubadala, KIA, MGX and L’IMAD. Its disclosed direct Gulf portfolio remains limited, but the relationships are already well established.
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24th September, 2026
The conflict is raising the value of infrastructural resilience, spare capacity and regional connectivity, bringing economic security further into Gulf sovereign investment decisions.
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22nd September, 2026
Qatar is giving domestic investment a much larger institutional role within its US$580 billion sovereign wealth fund, placing 45 state-owned companies representing roughly one-third of QIA’s assets under a dedicated manager.
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21st September, 2026
The Paramount–Warner merger provides a striking test of how far Gulf sovereign capital can reach into US cultural industries. The Hollywood sign has become shorthand for US cultural reach. The deal would place Gulf sovereign capital deep inside the economics of that system, with voting and editorial authority remaining in US hands.
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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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