23rd February, 2026
Sweden’s AP7 has spent most of its 25-year history running a vast, low-cost, largely outsourced global equity portfolio for premium pension savers, but in in 2025 that model delivered a modest 4.2% total return which was subdued compared with the prior year’s surge yet still consistent with its long-term objectives.
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20th February, 2026
The lunar calendar turned to the Year of the Fire Horse this week. In traditional Chinese symbolism, the Horse represents movement, independence and forward drive, while the Fire element adds intensity and volatility.
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19th February, 2026
This week, two developments demonstrated how Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is reshaping its exposure to digital industries.
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18th February, 2026
Temasek’s latest 13F filing for end-December 2025 confirms that its US-listed portfolio is being run as a high-conviction expression of a small number of long-term themes rather than a benchmark-style allocation.
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17th February, 2026
Mubadala’s latest 13F filing for Q4 2025 confirms that its US-listed equity portfolio remains dominated by a single strategic industrial holding, but the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has broadened the rest of its portfolio, making it more thematic and more active than it has been for several quarters.
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16th February, 2026
Danantara spent the first few weeks of 2026 by accelerating capital deployment across a broad set of strategic sectors, signalling that its institutional consolidation is now switching toward project execution.
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13th February, 2026
Anthropic’s US$30 billion Series G financing, valuing the company at approximately US$380 billion post-money, represents one of the largest private capital raises in the technology sector to date. The round was led by GIC alongside Coatue, with MGX participating as a co-lead and a broad syndicate of institutional and strategic investors completing the allocation. Earlier, in September 2025, Anthropic had raised US$13 billion in a Series F round that included both GIC and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), embedding sovereign capital in the company before the most recent step-change in valuation.
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12th February, 2026
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company has agreed to sell Getir’s Turkish delivery operations to Uber Technologies, bringing to a close one of the most visible sovereign interventions in the post-pandemic technology correction.
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11th February, 2026
Over the past two years, China–US tensions have increasingly shaped the portfolio strategies public pension funds and sovereign wealth funds leading to a structural recalibration in how China and the US are accessed, financed and exited.
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10th February, 2026
Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah’s 2025 performance indicates a settling down to the historical norm following an exceptional 2024 with its portfolio increasingly aligned with Malaysia’s broader state-capital framework.
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9th February, 2026
The reported decision by CPP Investments and OMERS to divest their combined majority stake in Associated British Ports (ABP) represents one of the biggest potential infrastructure transactions in the UK market to date with a targeted valuation over GBP10 billion (US$13 billion). The two Canadian pension funds hold a combined stake of approximately 67% of the company, with CPP Investments owning 34% and OMERS 33%, which would net each Canadian partner stands more than US$4 billion from divestment.
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6th February, 2026
In the early hours of 1 February 2026, Ethereum briefly fell to around US$2,243 in a sharp market dislocation that triggered widespread liquidations across leveraged crypto positions.
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