25th September, 2024
The Dutch public pension fund manager PGGM has signed a deal with the UK’s state-backed pension scheme Nest and insurer Legal & General to invest GBP1 billion in UK built-to-rent properties, as the new Labour government’s seeks to boost the economy and address the grinding affordability crisis.
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24th September, 2024
CDPQ is heavily investing in decarbonization and clean energy with a slew of investments announced this month as it strives towards its target of a net zero portfolio by 2050.
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23rd September, 2024
Singapore’s state-owned investors GIC and Temasek have joined Canadian public pension fund CDPQ and institutional investors to back Brookfield’s Catalytic Transition Fund (CTF), putting it nearly halfway to its US$5 billion fundraising target.
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20th September, 2024
Singapore’s Temasek is making further inroads into India’s healthcare and hospital sectors, where it has concentrated its investments.
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19th September, 2024
A ruling by the EU’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has demanded that tech giant Apple pays the Irish government EUR13 billion (US$14 billion) in back taxes, claiming that it benefitted from an illegal tax break.
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18th September, 2024
An alliance of Aldar and its biggest shareholder, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, is set to manage US$8 billion of real estate in the emirate in a sign of an evolving strong partnership.
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17th September, 2024
Despite persistent economic problems, Egypt is a top investment destination for Gulf sovereign wealth funds that are not only mindful of its long-term potential as an emerging market but also its strategic position in soft power rivalry over the MENA region.
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16th September, 2024
North American and European public pension funds are selling large chunks of their private equity holdings as secondary markets have picked up and limited partners are ramping up portfolio sales.
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12th September, 2024
With India’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways setting out plans for INR22 trillion (US$262 billion) in infrastructure investment up to FY2031/32, the Indian roads sector continues to be one of the world’s fastest growing infrastructure markets.
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11th September, 2024
Brazil is growing in prominence as an investment target among state-owned investors eyeing long-term returns and coming quarters are set to see a slew of sovereign capital in the South American market with infrastructure the prime target.
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10th September, 2024
Despite being the world’s biggest economy attracting the bulk of sovereign capital, the US lacks a federal-level sovereign wealth fund of its own – but this could all be about the change with rivals in the presidential election pitching their visions of state capitalism.
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9th September, 2024
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) continues to beat peers with another strong result boosted by public equities which enabled it to report a 14.9% return in the year to end-June, helping to boost coffers by NZ$11 billion (US$6.8 billion) to reach NZ$77 billion (US$47.4 billion) in FY2023/24.
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