15th May, 2026
On Thursday, Blackrock’s wholly owned GIP announced a US$ 30 billion partnership with L’IMAD, ADNOC, and Temasek, to invest in infrastructure investment across the GCC and Central Asia. The partnership will raise a combination of equity and debt capital to target both greenfield and brownfield assets across key segments including energy, transportation, logistics, digital, water, and waste management.
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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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7th April, 2026
The reported PIF talks over a possible US$5 billion SpaceX IPO investment and the reported US$24 billion of Gulf sovereign backing for Paramount Skydance’s Warner deal show that Gulf sovereign wealth funds are becoming crucial repeat providers of large minority capital to Western billionaire-led platforms.
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10th March, 2026
When the UAE launched EDGE Group in 2019, it was not particularly obvious what the endgame was. The official explanation was to consolidate a cluster of state-owned defence and technology firms into a single entity capable of developing domestic capability.
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1st November, 2025
In 2020, Oman merged SGRF and OIF into a single fund, OIA, which has grown significantly and helped with the reduction of Oman’s debt levels since then. We were delighted to speak with Ms. Samra Al Harthy, the Fund’s Chief Economist and a Board member of the MSX, about OIA’s current setup and future plans.
16th October, 2025
Blackstone and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate have launched GLIDE, a platform targeting about US$5 billion of Grade-A logistics across the Gulf.
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13th October, 2025
Last week, Global SWF presented its 2025 MENA Special Playbook at an event co-hosted with American law firm Morgan Lewis, at the Rosewood Hotel (ADGM) in Abu Dhabi. This is the fifth SWF conference organized by Global SWF in the past 15 months, after two similar workshops in New York, and two more in Singapore.
1st October, 2025
DP World was born in 2005 after the merger between Dubai Ports Authority and Dubai Ports International. A year later, its bid for some ports on the East Coast of the USA indirectly changed the SWF industry forever. In 2007, the company was listed in Nasdaq Dubai and raised US$ 5 billion, MENA’s largest ever IPO then. And in 2020, the company was delisted and went back to the full ownership of sovereign fund Dubai World. Today, DP World is the world’s fourth largest port operator and a highly active and acquisitive state investor.
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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23rd June, 2025
OIA posted a knockout profit of OMR1.6 billion (US$4.2 billion) and boosted its total assets above OMR20 billion (US$52 billion) in 2024, but behind the impressive figures OIA is quietly pursuing a bold new strategy: think locally, deal globally, and make every rial count for Oman’s future.
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2nd June, 2025
Dubai’s first IPO of 2025 – a Real Estate Investment Trust launched by state-owned investor Dubai Holding – has been a resounding success.
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12th May, 2025
Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund, Mumtalakat, reversed a colossal BHD497 million (US$1.32 billion) loss in 2023 to a record-breaking net profit of BHD363 million (US$963 million) in 2024.
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