17th April, 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund continues its rapid ascent with total assets under management estimated at US$730 billion, following the transfer of a 4% stake in the oil giant Saudi Aramco to the sovereign wealth fund’s wholly owned subsidiary, Sanabil Investments.
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14th April, 2023
Sovereign wealth funds have been prominent buyers in listed companies going private in recent months, and yet another big deal is on the horizon: a proposed GBP4.6 billion (US$5.7 billion) takeover of Dechra Pharmaceuticals by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Swedish private equity firm EQT.
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14th April, 2023
Sweden’s biggest pension fund manager Alecta has ousted its CEO Magnus Billing following massive losses in high-risk US bank investments.
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12th April, 2023
Norway’s US$1.35 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund Global, could start investing in private equity, potentially funneling billions into the asset class - but even if Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) agrees to a government request to examine "various aspects of unlisted equities”, any deployment is likely to be gradual and conservative.
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11th April, 2023
Singapore’s US$298 billion sovereign wealth fund Temasek is making an aggressive push into India’s rapidly growing health sector by bumping up its stake in Manipal Health Enterprises from 18% to 59%.
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6th April, 2023
Savvy Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), continues its focus on the gaming industry with a US$4.9 billion takeover of Scopely, which owns several popular franchises.
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5th April, 2023
Seven months after it was launched, the Israel Citizens' Fund (ICF) accumulated just US$617 million by end-2022, according to the Ministry of Finance.
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4th April, 2023
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has reported a 10th consecutive year of growth – as Aminu Umar-Sadiq took up the sovereign wealth fund’s leadership.
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3rd April, 2023
Turkiye's sovereign wealth fund has injected TRL111.7 billion (US$5.8 billion) of capital into three state-owned banks - Ziraat, Vakıfbank and Halkbank - ahead of the May elections to boost lending, and generate economic growth.
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1st April, 2023
Ontario is home to several world-class pension managers, including IMCO. The fund was established in 2016 to add value to public-sector clients of the Canadian province and is now the largest manager outside the “Maple 8”. We caught up with Rossitsa Stoyanova, one of the few female CIOs of a Sovereign Investor, about IMCO’s ambitions and about female leadership.
30th March, 2023
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) has sold Winchester House in the City of London – its first direct investment in the UK real estate market – at a loss, indicating it could be ditching assets amid rising geopolitical risks.
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29th March, 2023
March saw some mega deals and mega sales by sovereign wealth and public pension funds, with significant changes in public market positions as they seek protection from market volatility and high inflation.
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