15th December, 2023
On Monday, January 1, 2024, we will be releasing the industry’s most timely, rigorous, and insightful account of the activity and trends of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds during 2023. The report is titled “State-Owned Investors Powering Through Crises” and includes the following sections:
12th December, 2023
Dubai is creating a new sovereign wealth fund, bringing together chunky assets in part-privatized companies similar to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, which has used its infrastructure-based capital to diversify globally, including into private equity.
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7th December, 2023
While Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala will continue to maintain a strong foothold in the US, it is set to expand investments in emerging markets with Asia and MENA an increasing focus – while it also continues investing in both upstream fossil fuels and renewable energy.
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6th December, 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has added to its suite of multi-billion bilateral investment platforms with a US$3 billion pledge to neighbouring Iraq.
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5th December, 2023
The US$46.5 billion Swedish public pension fund AP3 has followed many other peers in forging an alliance for private equity co-investments, working with Wafra, a New York-based subsidiary of Kuwait’s public pension fund, the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS).
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4th December, 2023
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) followed the trend seen across the sovereign investor universe in 2022, reporting its biggest ever decline in its total portfolio value with an annual return that Global SWF estimates at 10.7% - but the year proved to be exceptional with market indices suggesting that losses have been mostly or fully reversed in 2023 and the world’s second biggest sovereign wealth fund bounced back in the Chinese year of the rabbit.
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1st December, 2023
The Indonesia Investment Authority (INA) may be still young, but it is making strides in the SWF world with a rising AuM and a busy investment activity in Indonesia’s most important industries. We had the great pleasure of speaking with the inaugural Chief Risk Officer of the fund, Ms. Marita Alisjahbana, about the fund’s current state of play and future strategy.
29th November, 2023
The UK is shaking off post-Brexit anxieties and attracting a slew of FDI in its infrastructure investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and two of Australia’s biggest pension fund investors, Aware Super and IFM.
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28th November, 2023
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund looks set to enter the private equity market for the first time, under the direction of former hedge fund manager CEO Nicolai Tangen.
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27th November, 2023
Just a month before the Hamas attacks of October 7th, the UAE marked the third anniversary of its normalization of ties with Israel – now geopolitical risk is creating obstacles to developing bilateral economic relations.
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23rd November, 2023
While Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor giants attract the most attention, the quieter state-owned investor the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) still remains a top-ranking and highly profitable holding company in the UAE’s second largest emirate.
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22nd November, 2023
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala has made another big move into private debt markets by anchoring a new special situations fund, Starz Orion Capital, which has been launched by Starz Real Estate (Starz), a leading pan-European commercial real estate lending platform.
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