21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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20th October, 2025
India is weighing a new state investment vehicle - the tentatively titled Bharat Sovereign Wealth Fund (BSWF) - with a mooted starting corpus of about US$50 billion.
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17th October, 2025
The Nigerian states of Oyo and Lagos are moving ahead with state-level sovereign wealth funds that, if properly executed, could reshape how sub-national governments finance growth, manage shocks and build credibility with long-term investors in Africa’s most populous country.
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16th October, 2025
Blackstone and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate have launched GLIDE, a platform targeting about US$5 billion of Grade-A logistics across the Gulf.
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15th October, 2025
Kenya is set to establish two state investment vehicles - a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) and a standalone infrastructure fund - seeded with proceeds from a planned IPO of Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), the latest in a long-standing bid to develop a state-owned investment
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14th October, 2025
Qatar Investment Authority’s additional US$535 million into ISAGEN, lifting its stake to roughly 15% alongside Brookfield Renewable Partners’ plan to rise to about 38% - fits a clear pattern.
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13th October, 2025
Last week, Global SWF presented its 2025 MENA Special Playbook at an event co-hosted with American law firm Morgan Lewis, at the Rosewood Hotel (ADGM) in Abu Dhabi. This is the fifth SWF conference organized by Global SWF in the past 15 months, after two similar workshops in New York, and two more in Singapore.
10th October, 2025
Panama’s Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá (FAP) has quietly undergone a major structural upgrade. The sovereign wealth fund exchanged a portfolio of non-tradable government promissory notes for liquid Republic of Panama bonds, thereby turning paper promises into real, marketable assets.
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9th October, 2025
India’s competition regulator has cleared a fresh slate of minority stakes that link Temasek and La Caisse’s real-estate arm, Ivanhoé Cambridge, to a network of Singapore-incorporated vehicles holding Indian office assets.
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8th October, 2025
Across the biggest sovereign wealth funds, leaders have reached a common view of 2025: the world is at the beginning of a long period of uncertainty in which debt, deglobalization and geopolitics keep volatility elevated, while technology - especially AI - creates durable pockets of growth.
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7th October, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is lining up its first euro-denominated green bond, split into three- and seven-year tranches with Crédit Agricole CIB, JPMorgan and Société Générale running the books.
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6th October, 2025
Late last year, China Investment Corporation (CIC) quietly registered a London representative office, taking a foothold in the UK without any public announcement.
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