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Sweden’s AP Fund Consolidation Leaves Three Larger Funds With Different Returns

31st August, 2026

Sweden’s pension fund consolidation has produced three larger income-pension buffer funds with different portfolios and markedly different first-half returns. AP2 returned 9.6% after costs in H1 2026, against 7.6% at AP3 and 6.8% at AP4, with the three funds reporting a combined SEK2.33 trillion (US$243 billion) at the end of June.

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CPP Takes Indian Renewables Platform "ReNew" Private as ADIA and JERA Stay Invested

28th August, 2026

CPP Investments is taking a larger role in ReNew Energy Global after agreeing with founder and CEO Sumant Sinha to buy out public shareholders at US$7.02 a share. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Japanese utility JERA will keep their stakes, leaving the Indian renewables group backed by investors willing to provide further equity after its Nasdaq listing failed to deliver the valuation needed to support its expansion.

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Arndt Exit Puts Future Fund’s Broader Mandate To A Succession Test

27th August, 2026

Future Fund Chief Executive Officer Raphael Arndt will leave at the end of 2026 with no successor yet named, opening a leadership transition as Australia’s sovereign wealth fund reports one of its strongest annual returns and begins putting more capital behind its expanded national-investment mandate. The timing puts succession alongside the wider question of how Future Fund preserves investment independence while taking on a more explicit domestic role.

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Qiddiya Takes PIF’s Giga-Project Model Abroad With EUR6 Billion France Plan

26th August, 2026

Qiddiya has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French government to explore a EUR6 billion (US$7 billion) entertainment development of up to three parks near Paris.

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Governments Move From AI Subsidies to Ownership to Build Sovereign AI and Capture Windfalls

25th August, 2026

The UK's fifth Sovereign AI investment adds to a growing pool of state-backed vehicles in China, Europe, the Gulf and Asia, as governments seek equity exposure to the companies and infrastructure driving artificial intelligence.

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CPP Widens Manager Partnerships for Infrastructure Megadeals

24th August, 2026

CPP Investments is placing more capital with Blackstone, KKR and EQT to reach manager-led infrastructure transactions, but is still retaining direct control where it can pair capital with an experienced operator.

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Temasek’s India IPO Run Rewards Long-Term Strategy

21st August, 2026

Four Temasek-backed Indian companies have risen sharply after listing this month, giving the Singapore investor a series of public market gains after years of private investment.

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ADIC Commits US$1 Billion to Dymon as State Investors Scale Hedge Fund Exposure

20th August, 2026

Some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds are concentrating more capital with hedge fund managers, with the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) becoming one of the biggest new sources of allocations in 2026.

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PIF Misses AUM Target as Saudi Equities and Project Write-Downs Weigh on 2025 Performance

19th August, 2026

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) ended its 2021-2025 strategy with sharply higher consolidated profit but weaker investment performance, as falling Saudi equities, project impairments and changes to the domestic portfolio weighed on assets under management.

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L’Imad Offers US$2.1 Billion to Reverse AD Ports Listing

18th August, 2026

L’Imad is seeking to acquire the 24.58% of AD Ports Group it does not already control for around AED7.8 billion (US$2.1 billion), reversing the company’s 2022 listing four and a half years after outside investors provided AED4 billion (US$1.1 billion) of new equity to support its expansion.

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Who Owns SpaceX? Biggest State-Owned Backers - and the Ones Who Avoided Musk's IPO

17th August, 2026

Global SWF has identified US$41.7 billion of SpaceX shares held by sovereign wealth and public pension funds at the end of June. Most of the value is concentrated in investors that entered SpaceX or xAI before the IPO, while several large funds maintain substantial Magnificent Seven exposure but hold little or no SpaceX.

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NBIM’s Record H1 Shows Early Progress in Real Assets Reset

14th August, 2026

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) generated a record NOK1,753 billion (US$184.9 billion) investment gain in the first half of 2026, as a Q2 rally in Asian technology stocks pushed the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to a 9.4% return.

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