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$184.9 billion) investment gain in the first half of 2026, as a Q2 rally in Asian technology stocks pushed the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to a 9.4% return.
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13th August, 2026
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) returned 9.5% in the first half of 2026 against 4.8% at OMERS, opening a 4.7 percentage-point gap between two funds that had been almost level a year earlier. The difference reflects the way their strategies met a market led by listed equities and growth assets. OTPP had greater exposure to the areas that performed best, whereas OMERS had more capital in private assets producing lower returns.
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12th August, 2026
Singapore’s GIC is extending its investment in Anthropic into the infrastructure required to run Claude, joining Macquarie Asset Management in a new data centre platform dedicated to the US artificial intelligence company. Global SWF estimates GIC has already invested around US$ 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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