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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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22nd August, 2025
Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is doing something many emerging market petro-states fumble: growing even while the government spends from it.
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21st August, 2025
Singapore’s Temasek is evaluating a huge overhaul, carving the group into three focused investment arms - Domestic Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs), Global Direct, and Funds/Asset Management - to tighten accountability and lift returns.
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20th August, 2025
Mozambique’s newborn sovereign wealth fund (FSM) is starting to look like a real fund rather than a legislative ambition.
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19th August, 2025
At the weekend’s Trump–Putin summit in Anchorage, one Russian attendee stood out among the security veterans: Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and now Putin’s special envoy for international economic and investment cooperation.
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