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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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