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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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