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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21st March, 2025
On Thursday, Dubai Holding confirmed it is part of a consortium that is taking over Nord Anglia, an UK private school chain that operates 80+ day and boarding schools in 33 countries, teaching over 90,000 students from ages 3 to 18.
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5th December, 2024
Franco-Saudi relations have been bolstered by the signing of a US$10 billion MoU between France’s state-owned investor Bpifrance and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
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1st October, 2024
Bahrain may be the smallest country in the GCC in terms of population and economy, but its Sovereign Investment industry is well developed, with two active SWFs: one for stabilization and savings function (Future Generation Reserve, or FGR) and another one for strategic and development purposes (Mumtalakat). The FGR had been a relatively low-profile SWF until 2020, when the government of Bahrain withdrew US$ 450 million, or half of its assets back then, to maintain economic stability. The withdrawal was followed by a change in the deposit rules, and the fund has been growing again thanks to new inflows and strong investment returns.
19th April, 2024
On Thursday this week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its latest fiscal oil price breakeven in the statistical appendix of its Middle East overview. These are important figures, as they reflect the fiscal situation of the countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), when compared to current oil prices.
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