12th June, 2026
On Thursday, the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that 2PointZero will be transferring the 7.29% stake it owns in the domestic utility giant TAQA, to its majority owner AD Power. The seller is part of the family office Royal Group, via IHC, while the buyer is a subsidiary of sovereign fund L’IMAD, via ADQ.
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11th June, 2026
The Chief Investment Officer of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) announced today its departure from the fund, after 13.5 years at its London office. Ralph Berg will leave this month to join Temasek on July 1. OMERS’ CEO Blake Hutcheson will cover as Acting CIO, until a successor is found.
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10th June, 2026
Three months after the start of the War in Iran and subsequent bombing of most GCC countries, the Gulf Central Banks have managed to keep a relatively stable level of foreign reserves in their balance sheets.
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9th June, 2026
This week could be historical for financial markets as SpaceX kicks off a series of “Giga-IPOs”, with valuations of US$ 1 trillion or more, and with unprecedented fundraising targets. Elon Musk’s conglomerate, which includes X (formerly Twitter) and xAI is currently the most valuable private company in the world at US$ 1 trillion and is targeting a value of US$ 1.75 trillion when it gets listed on June 12 on Nasdaq.
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8th June, 2026
On Thursday last week, South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund announced the opening of Tokyo office next month, with the goal of expanding investments in Japan, including both public markets and alternatives. This will be KIC’s sixth office outside of its headquarters in Seoul, after New York (opened in 2010), London (2011), Singapore (2017), San Francisco (2021), and Mumbai (2024).
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5th June, 2026
Three months into the Iran war, the Gulf is no longer in the first shock phase, but it is not back to normal. Energy flows have partly adapted, sovereign funding markets remain open, and the largest Gulf SWFs are still deploying capital.
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4th June, 2026
Sub-Saharan African governments are creating new sovereign funds from fiscal stress, commodity swings, public asset sales and the reorganisation of state balance sheets.
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3rd June, 2026
South Korea’s proposed Korea Future Investment Corporation gives the Lee Jae-myung administration a more defined state capital tool than the sovereign fund outlined in December.
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2nd June, 2026
Anthropic’s US$65 billion Series H further integrates GIC, Temasek, and MGX into the private ownership of large-model AI.
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1st June, 2026
On April 1, 2026, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership became the UK’s largest, and Europe’s sixth largest institutional investor, with US$ 158 billion in assets. We were delighted to speak with its Chief Investment Officer (Mr. Joe McDonnell) and its Chief Stakeholder Officer (Mr. Ewan McCulloch), about the fund’s growth, the current strategy to put that capital to work, and the outlook.