30th April, 2026
Two months after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, Gulf SWFs are acting according to mandate rather than market sentiment.
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29th April, 2026
Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna and the Oman Investment Authority (OIA) signed Heads of Terms in this month covering industry, healthcare, energy, consumer, logistics and mining, but with no disclosed capital size and no fixed vehicle yet.
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28th April, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s brainchild Canada Strong Fund is not Canada’s answer to Norway’s US$2 trillion Government Pension Fund Global - it is a different kind of sovereign vehicle, a leaner federal equity investor for a deficit-running economy that wants to turn public capital into ownership stakes in strategic domestic assets.
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27th April, 2026
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has moved from an aggressive, heavily syndicated offer into a shareholder-approved transaction whose main risks now sit in regulation, financing execution and Gulf sovereign capital capacity.
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24th April, 2026
NBIM and ABP both reported negative first quarter results, but the losses affected them differently.
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23rd April, 2026
Maharlika is now clearly operating as a strategic sovereign wealth fund with capital directed into a narrow set of domestic sectors where the Philippine state has a direct interest in resilience and supply security, rather than into a diversified global portfolio.
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22nd April, 2026
Azalea’s planned evergreen private equity fund is less important for its likely size than for what it reveals about Temasek’s new structure.
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20th April, 2026
A new sovereign-backed private-markets platform has been launched for the China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) corridor.
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20th April, 2026
L’Imad’s Aqaba Port Railway deal – the fund’s first major transaction since it was launched earlier this year, absorbing ADQ – has implications beyond transport.
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17th April, 2026
Hedge funds are not a major allocation for sovereign wealth funds or public pensions, but they have grown from an estimated 2.0% of SWF exposure in 2022 to over 3.0% in 2025.
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16th April, 2026
PIF’s 2026-2030 strategy formalises three shifts Global SWF had already identified in recent months. It separates developmental capital, strategic ownership and financia-return capital more clearly and places more weight on monetisation and funding resilience as the portfolio matures and the fund advances towards the final phase of Vision 2030.
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15th April, 2026
Temasek’s decision to appoint chief executive Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara as chairman of Vertex from 15 April 2026 adds a second clear marker to the state investor’s post-restructuring platform strategy.
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