13th August, 2026
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) returned 9.5% in the first half of 2026 against 4.8% at OMERS, opening a 4.7 percentage-point gap between two funds that had been almost level a year earlier. The difference reflects the way their strategies met a market led by listed equities and growth assets. OTPP had greater exposure to the areas that performed best, whereas OMERS had more capital in private assets producing lower returns.
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12th August, 2026
Singapore’s GIC is extending its investment in Anthropic into the infrastructure required to run Claude, joining Macquarie Asset Management in a new data centre platform dedicated to the US artificial intelligence company. Global SWF estimates GIC has already invested around US$ 6.3 billion in Anthropic, making it the company’s largest sovereign investor.
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11th August, 2026
PIF is seeking outside capital for two of its most visible sports investments, four years after sovereign funding helped launch LIV Golf and accelerate Newcastle United’s development. The shift puts its sports portfolio in line with a 2026-2030 strategy built around value realisation, investment returns and greater private-sector participation.
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10th August, 2026
Indonesia’s US$230 billion sovereign wealth fund Danantara is moving further into international investment, with a US$2.5 billion partnership with Brazil’s JBS giving the clearest indication so far of how new capital will be deployed.
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7th August, 2026
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company is considering investing up to JPY1 trillion (US$6.3 billion) in a proposed 500MW artificial intelligence data centre in Japan’s Akita Prefecture. It may lead a group of Japanese and overseas investors, although no commitment, financing timetable or ownership structure has been announced.
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6th August, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has completed its US$55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts, turning six years of gaming investments into a more complete operating platform spanning mobile publishing, esports, console and PC publishing, sports franchises and direct access to hundreds of millions of players.
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5th August, 2026
Manipal Health Enterprises’ INR92.75 billion (US$977 million) initial public offering has attracted a slew of global state-owned investors with Singapore’s Temasek seeing a modest dilution of ownership, but foreign sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds still hold 50.3% of the newly listed hospital group.
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4th August, 2026
Mubadala has committed up to EUR600 million (US$692 million) to two ADD Capital funds covering housing and value-add property in Europe as it moves beyond conventional real estate assets into rental housing development, affordable housing and student accommodation.
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3rd August, 2026
CPP Investments’ C$1 billion (US$714 million) commitment to Tarchon, a proposed subsea power link between the UK and Germany, is a gamble on the infrastructure needed to move electricity between European markets at a time when energy prices are buffeted by geopolitical risks and transition needs.
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1st August, 2026
For the past two years, the GSR Scoreboard has recognized Rest as the only Australian superannuation fund with a perfect score (100%). The US$ 77 billion fund has yielded a 7.6% p.a. return for the past decade in the default option for its members. We were delighted to speak with its CIO Mr. Michael Clancy about the fund’s growth, the current strategy to put that capital to work, and the outlook.