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Change at the Top of Future Fund, As Strategy Evolves

29th January, 2024

Australia’s Future Fund has hired a new chair to take over from the long-standing leadership of Peter Costello, with the Labor government choosing a politician – Greg Combet – from their own ranks, whose career has focused heavily on combating climate change.

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Signs Of Robust 2023 Returns For Sovereign Investors, But 2024 Will Be A Rocky Ride

18th January, 2024

Little over two weeks since the end of 2023 and the first annual returns results are trickling in from state-owned investors, with signs that it was a better year for the sector – however, geopolitical instability is expected to generate market turmoil that could reverse gains in 2024, particularly for highly liquid funds.

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Global SWF's Most-read Commentaries of 2023

29th December, 2023

This year saw Global SWF publish 250 daily articles on the latest developments in the sovereign wealth universe at a time of rising geopolitical tensions, economic slowdown and high inflation.

2023 Set to See a Reversal of Record Loss by China's CIC

4th December, 2023

The China Investment Corporation (CIC) followed the trend seen across the sovereign investor universe in 2022, reporting its biggest ever decline in its total portfolio value with an annual return that Global SWF estimates at 10.7% - but the year proved to be exceptional with market indices suggesting that losses have been mostly or fully reversed in 2023 and the world’s second biggest sovereign wealth fund bounced back in the Chinese year of the rabbit.

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ICD Boosts Profits in Line with Dubai's Robust Economic Performance

23rd November, 2023

While Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor giants attract the most attention, the quieter state-owned investor the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) still remains a top-ranking and highly profitable holding company in the UAE’s second largest emirate.

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Ireland's ISIF Beats Bigger Peers as it Ramps Up Green Transition Investments

8th November, 2023

The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) steered deftly through turbulent times in H113, securing a 1.7% return, contributing EUR136 million to the sovereign wealth fund’s overall value and helping to support the nation's green transition goals.

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Future Fund Limits Equities Volatility by Tilting to Private Credit

27th October, 2023

Australia’s Future Fund reported a negative return of 0.5% in Q3 with A$900 million wiped off the value of the sovereign wealth fund to A$205.2 billion (US$130 billion) – but its 12-month return was a positive 6.3% amid heightened volatility.

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Norway’s SWF mirrors the market, stays as world’s largest

24th October, 2023

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, known as GPFG or NBIM, returned -2.1% in the third quarter of 2023, with all asset classes having similar negative returns. The aggregrate results for the first nine months of 2023 are still positive at 7.7%, thanks to the strong recovery of the equity markets, when compared to 2022.

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ADQ’s portfolio jumps to US$ 200 billion pushed by TAQA’s rally

23rd October, 2023

Abu Dhabi Inc. is an ever-changing landscape, and its various Sovereign Wealth Funds are making strides both at home and overseas. One of them is ADQ, formerly known as Abu Dhabi Development Holding, which contributes to about 22% of the emirate’s non-oil GDP.

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ADIA recovers from a bad 2022, spins off RE & Infra and remains bullish on PE/PC and China

10th October, 2023

On Tuesday, ADIA finally released its 2022 Annual Report, shedding some light on its latest developments:

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Losing Musicco as CIO Raises Questions Over CalPERS’s Future Private Equity Strategy

18th September, 2023

The US$463 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has lost another CIO with Nicole Musicco quitting her position after less than two years for family reasons.

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NZ Super Leads the Pack: ESG Is Not a Bar to Success

13th September, 2023

Fuelled by growth in global equities, NZ Super reported a barnstorming performance in the financial year ending June 30 with an 11.9% return – the best return of its peers reporting over the same period.

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