21st November, 2024
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is seeking a massive shake-up of the country’s pension funds, with a particular focus on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), to unlock their capital for domestic investment.
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20th November, 2024
Affordable and social housing is emerging as a focus for state-owned investors (SOIs) who see opportunities for real estate asset growth as well as addressing social responsibility in their ESG mandates.
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19th November, 2024
An organizational shake-up is being conducted at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which oversees Norway’s US$1.7 trillion Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), with real assets regrouped under the fund’s massive equities portfolio.
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18th November, 2024
Last week was rather eventful among the SWFs of the Arabian Gulf. In Qatar, QIA changed its leadership on Tuesday, after Al Mahmoud was appointed Minister of Health. In Saudi, PIF decided to change the CEO of its flagship project NEOM on Wednesday, in an effort to ensure the success of the job. In Abu Dhabi, ADIA reported its annual results on Thursday, which according to Global SWF estimates may have signaled a new milestone for its portfolio. And that same day in Kuwait, KIA confirmed the retirement of its MD Ghanem Al-Ghaniman.
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14th November, 2024
On Thursday, ADIA released its results for the year ended on December 31, 2023 – and below is our usual reading between the lines, for our subscribers:
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13th November, 2024
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ is developing its petrochemicals portfolio, adding value to upstream output – but also overlapping with the interests of Abu Dhabi’s other state-owned investor, Mubadala, which has its own assets in the sector.
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12th November, 2024
On Tuesday, Sheikh Tamim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, announced some important changes to his cabinet.
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11th November, 2024
The Indonesian government is delaying its launch of its new sovereign wealth fund, named Danantara, until President Prabowo Subianto returns from his overseas trip towards the end of next week.
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8th November, 2024
The government of Canada’s Alberta province has sacked the board and CEO of its US$115 billion public pension fund over rising costs.
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7th November, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is making a strong bid on developed Asian economies with a slew of deals with Japanese banks and an agreement to anchor a fund to support Hong Kong’s business community.
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6th November, 2024
Singapore and Abu Dhabi have seen their relationship grow in recent years, with their respective state-owned investors playing a crucial role in the developing economic partnership between the two countries, which enjoyed a non-oil bilateral trade approaching US$6 billion last year.
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5th November, 2024
The rise in the value of the yen and poor performance in domestic equities has delivered Japan’s gigantic Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) its biggest quarterly loss since the pandemic struck in 2020 with a return of -3.6%.
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