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Syria Is Open for Business. Now What? Examining Sovereign Investment

26th August, 2025

DP World’s 30-year, US$800 million Tartus port concession deal is Syria’s first real post-war anchor and is meant to pull in bigger balance sheets and re-open the economy, just months after the Russian navy withdrew following the collapse of the Assad regime.

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NIIF aims to double AUM to US$10bn as exits, follow-on funds and credit push gather pace

25th August, 2025

India’s National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is raising its sights. This month, the quasi-sovereign investor said it wants to double assets to around US$10 billion within roughly 30 months, based on infrastructure and private market investment vehicles, new co-investments and a bigger role for private credit.

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Guyana’s Oil Fund Keeps Swelling – Qatar and IMF Give Their Approval

22nd August, 2025

Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is doing something many emerging market petro-states fumble: growing even while the government spends from it.

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Temasek’s Three-Arm Split: Faster, Sharper, and Built for the Next Cycle

21st August, 2025

Singapore’s Temasek is evaluating a huge overhaul, carving the group into three focused investment arms - Domestic Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs), Global Direct, and Funds/Asset Management - to tighten accountability and lift returns.

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Mozambique’s LNG Piggy-Bank Is Finally Filling - Now Comes the Hard Part

20th August, 2025

Mozambique’s newborn sovereign wealth fund (FSM) is starting to look like a real fund rather than a legislative ambition.

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Putin’s Dealmaker-In-Chief: How Kirill Dmitriev and RDIF Turned SWF into Russian Statecraft

19th August, 2025

At the weekend’s Trump–Putin summit in Anchorage, one Russian attendee stood out among the security veterans: Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and now Putin’s special envoy for international economic and investment cooperation.

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Mubadala’s Public Equity Strategy: Chips, Credit, and Crypto

18th August, 2025

Mubadala’s US-listed equity footprint continues to be defined by a single, sovereign-scale anchor with a widening range of strategic investments.

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Beyond the Rally: Saudi's PIF Sells Heat, Buys Durability in US Equities

15th August, 2025

While US equities recovered from the shockwaves of President Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” trade tariff proclamation, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) chose instead to shrink its US public equity footprint by about 6.6% from US$25.5 billion to US$23.8 billion.

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PIF: Scale, Speed, and the Growing Pains of a US$1 Trillion Vision

14th August, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) reported another year of stellar growth in its 2024 annual report with some strong headline numbers: AUM surged 19% to US$913 billion, cumulative domestic investments since 2021 topped US$171 billion, and PIF now represents around 10% of the Kingdom’s non-oil GDP.

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Zero Two’s ASEAN Move Marks Abu Dhabi’s Entry into Global Hyperscale Stakes

13th August, 2025

Abu Dhabi’s ADQ made a bold digital infrastructure move with its first overseas deal via its digital infra arm Zero Two.

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OTPP Strategy: Building Dry Powder Through Capital Recycling and Raising Liquidity

12th August, 2025

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) just posted its mid-year results for 2025 at a time of great change, both for the fund and its operational environment.

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How Abu Dhabi’s Stablecoin Signals a Sovereign Crypto Endgame

11th August, 2025

When Abu Dhabi’s ADQ joined forces with International Holding Company (IHC) and First Abu Dhabi Bank to launch a UAE Dirham-backed stablecoin, it was a geopolitical move, a monetary gambit, and a market-access play rolled into one.

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