27th November, 2025
Last week, Istvan Zollei of Orion Resource Partners summed up the new reality of the commodity world in one line: demand for copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt and rare earths is set to outpace supply “for much of the next decade,” driven not just by electric vehicles and renewables, but by data centres, artificial intelligence and the reshoring of industrial and defence production.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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8th August, 2025
Football transfer windows rarely generate headlines in boardrooms and among institutional investors, but the arrival of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has changed that calculus entirely.
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7th August, 2025
Norway’s US$1.8 trillion Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) - the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - has just launched a fresh review of its Israeli holdings following revelations that it raised its stake in Bet Shemesh Engines, a jet engine supplier to the Israeli military, from 1.3% to over 2% in 2024.
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6th August, 2025
Iran’s sovereign wealth fund - the National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI) - is sitting on a reported "balance" of US$30 billion, according to the Fund’s chairman Mehdi Ghazanfari.
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7th July, 2025
In late 2023, Ireland set out to achieve what most European countries can only dream of: leveraging record fiscal surpluses into not one, but two sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), aimed at shielding the country from demographic headwinds and the looming costs of climate adaptation.
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25th June, 2025
Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) isn’t just Africa’s largest sovereign wealth fund at US$45 billion - it’s now Ethiopia’s most audacious power player, throwing its weight around in the region’s biggest geopolitical game: the scramble for ports.
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