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Treasury moves to calm sovereign wealth fund tax fears - but questions remain

19th January, 2026

When concerns began to circulate late last year that the Trump administration was preparing to upend the tax treatment of SWFs, the reaction  saw lawyers issue alerts, investors reviewing strategies and fund managers fielded anxious calls.

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Singapore’s investment giants are facing a familiar question: what counts as “good” returns?

14th January, 2026

When Singapore’s Parliament returned this week, MPs lined up questions about the performance of GIC and Temasek, two institutions central to the city-state’s fiscal model and its reputation for technocratic stewardship. The immediate trigger was a run of media comparisons suggesting that Singapore’s flagship investors have lagged global peers and public market benchmarks over the past decade.

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The US as the Decision Market: Why 2025 Marked a Structural Break in Sovereign Investment

5th January, 2026

In 2025, sovereign investors channelled more than US$140 billion into the US economy, lifting the country’s share of global sovereign deal activity to over 50%, as revealed in Global SWF’s 2026 Annual Report published last week.

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Temasek Tightens Its Asset Management Platform Model with Pavilion-Seviora Integration

26th November, 2025

Singapore state investor Temasek is tightening the lines between its in-house investment arms, folding private equity specialist Pavilion Capital into asset manager Seviora Group in a move that underlines its push to build a larger, more coherent Asian private-markets business.

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Temasek’s Quiet High-Conviction Bet on Big Finance, Big Tech and Asian Platforms

18th November, 2025

Temasek’s US-listed equity portfolio has grown steadily more concentrated, more technology-heavy and more tied to global financial infrastructure over the past 18 months, according to its quarterly 13F filings.

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SWFs are Driving the Take-Private Surge

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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QIA–ORIX’s Japan fund is the tip of a bigger shift in how sovereigns build platforms

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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GIC Tests the Secondaries Market with a US$1bn LP-Stakes Sale

29th October, 2025

Singapore’s GIC is exploring the sale of around US$1 billion of private-equity fund interests, a move that aligns with how the sovereign wealth fund has used the secondaries market over the past few years to fine-tune exposure and recycle capital.

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AustralianSuper joins the rush for UK “living” assets

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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Temasek-La Caisse get the green light in India, signalling development of the real estate cycle

9th October, 2025

India’s competition regulator has cleared a fresh slate of minority stakes that link Temasek and La Caisse’s real-estate arm, Ivanhoé Cambridge, to a network of Singapore-incorporated vehicles holding Indian office assets.

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What SWF leaders are saying about the world economy

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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Temasek’s Three-Arm Split: Faster, Sharper, and Built for the Next Cycle

21st August, 2025

Singapore’s Temasek is evaluating a huge overhaul, carving the group into three focused investment arms - Domestic Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs), Global Direct, and Funds/Asset Management - to tighten accountability and lift returns.

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