23rd July, 2026
A portfolio containing “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Bad Romance” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” might sound like the soundtrack to a distressed assets meeting, but for GIC and Sony Music Group it is the background music of a royalty portfolio reportedly worth close to US$4 billion.
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22nd July, 2026
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation is exploring the use of its advanced materials in vehicles produced by Ceer, taking Saudi Arabia’s automotive localisation drive beyond assembly and into the materials used in the cars themselves.
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21st July, 2026
CPP Investments is expanding its US industrial property exposure through the US$5.2 billion take-private of LXP Industrial Trust. The acquisition adds to a wider rotation from offices and retail into logistics, data centres and housing.
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20th July, 2026
Hong Kong Investment Corporation hiked its investment income by 175% to HK$6.46 billion (US$824 million) in 2025, according to recently published results, while operating profit rose 181% to HK$6.32 billion and its portfolio recorded a net internal rate of return of 14%.
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17th July, 2026
ePointZero’s US$2.25 billion acquisition of Traverse Midstream shows how royal, listed and sovereign capital circulate through Abu Dhabi’s investment system. The entities remain legally separate, but assets, mandates, executives and liquidity move between them in ways that can strengthen the system as a whole.
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16th July, 2026
South Korea has abandoned plans for a standalone sovereign wealth fund after failing to establish a clear place for it within an already crowded system of state capital. Seoul will instead create a strategic investment account inside the Korean Investment Corporation (KIC), retaining the programme while dropping the instit3ution designed to carry it out.
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15th July, 2026
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s 14.8% return was powered by equities, but its rebuilt private equity programme made the result stronger.
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14th July, 2026
GIC is adding senior oversight across its private market teams while keeping their chief investment officers directly accountable to Group Chief Investment Officer Bryan Yeo.
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13th July, 2026
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Singapore’s GIC and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) are buying into India’s savings shift. Their bids for the anchor tranche of SBI Funds Management’s IPO add the country’s largest asset manager to portfolios already spread across financial services, infrastructure, property and private equity.
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10th July, 2026
Ireland has built a three-part sovereign capital model with a clear split between domestic deployment and fiscal protection, with the latest annual report by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) offering an insight into how similar small European countries can punch above their weight when managing massive fiscal windfalls - as well as the risks.
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9th July, 2026
Mubadala’s transfer of a US$25 billion credit portfolio to Mubadala Capital has bolstered the asset management arm of the Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor, turning an internal investment record into an external capital product for third-party investors.
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8th July, 2026
Temasek’s full transition to mark-to-market has lifted its Net Portfolio Value to S$518 billion (US$400.8 billion), moving Singapore’s state investor into the world’s Top 10 sovereign wealth funds as it directs more capital toward AI, private credit and infrastructure.
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