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NPS mid-2025: Solid Returns, Currency Volatility, and a Strategic Tilt

9th September, 2025

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a +4.08% money-weighted return in the first half of 2025, generating KRW 49.8 trillion (US$36.9 billion) of investment income.

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Global Buyers Line Up for US$1bn TWF Bond, Validating a Programmatic Approach

8th September, 2025

Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund has made a bold return to the dollar market.

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Dutch Pension Fund’s US$17bn Break with BlackRock Shows Net Zero Fault Line

5th September, 2025

PFZW, the EUR250 billion Dutch healthcare pension fund managed by PGGM, has announced it is pulling a EUR14.5 billion (US$17 billion) mandate from BlackRock, over climate stewardship – revealing an ideological fault-line that has emerged over ESG investment and climate stewardship.

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OIA’s bilateral push: deals that serve a domestic mandate

4th September, 2025

Oman’s Investment Authority is stitching together a network of bilateral deals that look outward but point home, leveraging the sovereign wealth fund for Oman’s goal to develop its economic and geopolitical heft.

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Thames Water’s cliff-edge is a stress test for UK regulated infrastructure

3rd September, 2025

Thames Water’s slow-motion crisis has become the Rorschach test for how attractive - or not - UK regulated infrastructure is to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs).

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Abu Dhabi’s Global Health Triad: PureHealth, Arcera, M42

2nd September, 2025

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds have spent the past 18 months turning healthcare and life sciences into platforms with international reach.

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Fund of the Month: Baiterek National Managing Holding JSC

1st September, 2025

In 2013, Kazakhstan spun off the portfolio of financial institutions from Samruk-Kazyna and established another SWF, Baiterek, which has evolved significantly since then. We were delighted to speak with Mr. Timur Onzhanov, the Fund’s Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, about Baiterek’s strategy and plans.

NBIM’s Israel Exclusions: Governance vs. Geopolitics - and the Portfolio Implications

29th August, 2025

Norway’s NOK20.2 trillion (US$2 trillion) Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) has shed stakes in 23 Israeli companies since the end of June after an accelerated ethics review by its manager, Norges Bank (NBIM).

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ADIA Moves from LP to Shareholder in GLP’s New Economy Push with US$1.5bn Investment

28th August, 2025

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is signalling where sovereign capital sees durable growth: direct investment in asset managers.

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Lunate takes a stake in Brevan Howard - and commits US$2bn to an ADGM platform

27th August, 2025

Abu Dhabi-based, ADQ-anchored alternative manager Lunate will buy a minority stake in Brevan Howard and commit US$2 billion of long-term capital to a new investment platform domiciled in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), with further fundraising planned from regional and international investors.

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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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