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Selling Egypt by the Pound: Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds Swap Bailouts for Beaches and Gas

6th November, 2025

By any measure, Egypt in 2025 is still navigating a fragile recovery. It has been left structurally dependent on external support following a decade of repeated currency crises, surging external debt, inflation shocks, and fallout from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

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Mubadala in Brazil: Taking Control and Scaling Up

27th October, 2025

Mubadala has turned Brazil into a multi-platform focus of investment with a strategy that seeks to rebuild distressed assets, lower financing costs and back large-scale decarbonisation. The past year brought hard evidence across roads, restaurants, exchanges, biofuels, higher education - and a potential move into aluminium.

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Saudi Infra, Global Money: Inside the $11bn Leaseback That Lures Sovereign Investors

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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Qatar's LatAm Play: QIA Invests in Colombian Renewables Leader

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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Balancing Beta: NBIM Backs Brookfield Energy Transition Push

29th September, 2025

NBIM has just committed US$1.5 billion to Brookfield Asset Management’s Global Transition Fund II (BGTF II), which represents its second indirect allocation to unlisted renewables and its first to a broad “energy transition” platform.

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Sovereign Investors Plug into Europe’s Grid Supercycle

25th September, 2025

This week, the Dutch government announced the partial sale of TenneT’s German operations to a consortium of long-term investors: Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Singapore’s GIC, and Dutch pension fund APG.

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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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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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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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Beyond the Cloud: The Global Battle for Digital Infrastructure Ownership

5th August, 2025

Singapore’s GIC has cut through the noise of global deal-making with its EUR1.4 billion (US$1.5 billion) acquisition of a 25% stake in Spain’s new fiber optic powerhouse - a joint venture with MasOrange and Vodafone Spain.

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Smart Infrastructure and SWFs: Why GIC and Mubadala Are Backing Techem’s Next Phase

23rd July, 2025

The US$7.3 billion acquisition of German energy efficiency provider Techem by Partners Group’s Infrastructure unit, alongside GIC, TPG Rise Climate, and Mubadala, marks a significant vote of confidence in digital decarbonization infrastructure.

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Norway’s SWF Faces the Facts on Active Management: Real Assets in the Spotlight

3rd July, 2025

Norway’s Ministry of Finance has launched a fresh independent review into the active management of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the US$1.94 trillion (valuation this week) Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG).

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