13th January, 2026
On Monday, the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs (SCFEA), which is chaired by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed (MbZ) and supervises all major energy and investment vehicles of Abu Dhabi, issued a resolution naming the new Board of Directors and the inaugural CEO of L’IMAD, the Emirate’s latest SWF.
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30th December, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, Global SWF’s most-read analysis reveals a clear pattern: audiences were far less interested in short-term returns or league tables, and far more engaged by how sovereign capital is being organised, governed, and deployed. Across Abu Dhabi, the Gulf, Asia, and beyond, the most-popular themes among our readers shared a common thread: power, structure, intent, and institutional design.
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29th December, 2025
Masdar’s strategy through 2025 did not resemble a conventional corporate growth plan, but instead operated more like a state-capital buildout with the deployment of a large amount of patient capital into contracted renewables, acquisitions to secure operating platforms in priority markets, and extension into clean power and storage.
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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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19th November, 2025
Mubadala’s latest 13F filing for Q3 2025 shows a US-listed equity portfolio that is still dominated by a single strategic holding, but with a steadily more developed supporting cast around it.
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3rd November, 2025
Abu Dhabi has introduced a new state vehicle with minimal public fanfare but immediate consequence.
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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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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.
23rd September, 2025
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is moving forward to an IPO, lining up Citi, Goldman Sachs, Emirates NBD Capital and First Abu Dhabi Bank. A valuation of US$10-15 billion has been estimated, but the listing venue - Abu Dhabi (ADX) or Dubai (DFM) - still in play.
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16th September, 2025
This week a new move shook the world of Sovereign Investors, as Australia Future Fund’s CIO Ben Samild quit after 12 years to become the new Chief Strategist of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC).
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11th September, 2025
Mubadala’s secondary sale of up to 7.55% of du (EITC) signals how sovereign capital is steering the UAE’s equity markets in 2025, as well as demonstrating its bid to liquidise assets through public markets as it redeploys capital to other strategic sectors.
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27th August, 2025
Abu Dhabi-based, ADQ-anchored alternative manager Lunate will buy a minority stake in Brevan Howard and commit US$2 billion of long-term capital to a new investment platform domiciled in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), with further fundraising planned from regional and international investors.
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