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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20th June, 2025
Investors and regional analysts were left reeling when Djibouti’s government abruptly dissolved its Sovereign Wealth Fund (Fonds Souverain de Djibouti, FSD) in late April 2025, just weeks after the highly acclaimed Djibouti Forum and four months after renewing the CEO's three-year mandate.
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19th June, 2025
The eastern Mediterranean's energy landscape has always been complex, but in 2025, Cyprus faces a critical juncture.
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10th June, 2025
For years, Botswana’s Pula Fund has been hailed as a model of fiscal discipline: a sovereign wealth fund that quietly turned diamond wealth into long-term national security.
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9th June, 2025
Indonesia had bold visions for its new sovereign wealth fund, Danantara, when it was launched in early 2025: to mirror Singapore’s Temasek in backing national champions, fueling industrial modernisation, and asserting control over the country’s digital destiny.
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3rd June, 2025
India is pulling out all the stops to court Saudi Arabia’s mighty Public Investment Fund (PIF). In a fast-paced bid to unlock up to US$100 billion of Saudi investment, New Delhi has proposed a 10-year tax holiday on profits and sweeping exemptions on interest, dividends, and capital gains for PIF.
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20th May, 2025
With the French budget in crisis and foreign direct investment into startups falling off a cliff, President Emmanuel Macron is doubling down on his most reliable card: foreign capital from sovereign wealth giants.
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19th May, 2025
Taiwan stands at a fiscal crossroads. With over US$567 billion in foreign exchange reserves - the sixth largest stockpile in the world - it has the firepower to build a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that could deliver national returns and raise its global profile.
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