17th December, 2025
Mubadala’s new US$500m global real estate debt partnership with Barings looks modest beside the Abu Dhabi investor’s overall balance sheet, but it is a useful clue to where the firm is putting its energy.
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10th December, 2025
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has joined the front rank of investors shaping where the next wave of artificial intelligence will physically live.
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9th December, 2025
Paramount Skydance’s hostile offer for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is an example of how Gulf sovereign wealth capital is being used in politically sensitive US sectors as funding partners without formal influence.
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8th December, 2025
The announcement of the creation of Aldar Capital by Aldar and Mubadala Capital builds on the joint venture between the two Abu Dhabi heavyweights, shifting from domestic co-investment into an institutional platform that seeks to attract global third party capital into Gulf real estate and infrastructure, using Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) as its base.
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4th December, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is deploying only around 20% of its capital abroad, but within that slice, Developed Asia has become a small but strategically important cluster.
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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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25th November, 2025
When Brookfield Asset Management unveiled a new US$100 billion programme to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure last week, one name in the press release signalled how far the balance of power in AI has shifted: the Kuwait Investment Authority.
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12th November, 2025
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and ORIX have launched a Japan-only buyout vehicle, OQCI Fund LP, at the yen-equivalent of US$2.5 billion.
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29th October, 2025
Singapore’s GIC is exploring the sale of around US$1 billion of private-equity fund interests, a move that aligns with how the sovereign wealth fund has used the secondaries market over the past few years to fine-tune exposure and recycle capital.
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28th October, 2025
Goldman Sachs is in talks to manage as much as US$10 billion for the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), channelling capital over several years into private equity, private credit and infrastructure funds.
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23rd October, 2025
Blackstone and TPG’s US$18.3 billion take-private of Hologic - backed by “significant” minority cheques from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Singapore’s GIC – underlines the trend towards repeat, programmatic co-investment by sovereign funds alongside tier-one sponsors, delivering cheaper, faster equity and the follow-on capacity needed for platform growth.
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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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