22nd June, 2026
According to recently released figures, China’s biggest sovereign wealth fund is nudging US$2 trillion in AuM. The more interesting point, though, is not the ranking and scale, but where the money appears to sit and how China is using Hong Kong to keep offshore investing within a controlled financial perimeter.
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19th June, 2026
The Libyan Investment Authority’s Q1 2026 figures show a fund moving beyond legal defence while still operating inside the UN sanctions system.
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5th June, 2026
Three months into the Iran war, the Gulf is no longer in the first shock phase, but it is not back to normal. Energy flows have partly adapted, sovereign funding markets remain open, and the largest Gulf SWFs are still deploying capital.
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21st May, 2026
Syria is building new institutions around reconstruction assets, donor funding and foreign investment in an effort to rebuild after years of a devastating civil war, despite the fragility of domestic governance.
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20th May, 2026
The UAE–India agreements announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2026 visit to Abu Dhabi show the bilateral relationship rising in the banking, credit, energy storage, AI and maritime repair sectors – thanks to sovereign investment structures.
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7th May, 2026
Russia’s National Wealth Fund has become one of the clearest measures of how the state has adapted to pressure since 2022. The fund still gives Moscow a usable fiscal buffer, and the Iran war has improved that buffer at the margin by lifting oil prices and allowing the Finance Ministry to restart small purchases for the NWF.
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30th April, 2026
Two months after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, Gulf SWFs are acting according to mandate rather than market sentiment.
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29th April, 2026
Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna and the Oman Investment Authority (OIA) signed Heads of Terms in this month covering industry, healthcare, energy, consumer, logistics and mining, but with no disclosed capital size and no fixed vehicle yet.
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27th April, 2026
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has moved from an aggressive, heavily syndicated offer into a shareholder-approved transaction whose main risks now sit in regulation, financing execution and Gulf sovereign capital capacity.
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20th April, 2026
A new sovereign-backed private-markets platform has been launched for the China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) corridor.
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20th April, 2026
L’Imad’s Aqaba Port Railway deal – the fund’s first major transaction since it was launched earlier this year, absorbing ADQ – has implications beyond transport.
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31st March, 2026
Recent developments have reinforced a reconstruction model for Gaza in which security arrangements, transitional administration and donor oversight come before broad-based project financing. This process leaves the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) in an important but secondary position.
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