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GIC Puts Private Markets Under One Investment Chief

14th July, 2026

GIC is adding senior oversight across its private market teams while keeping their chief investment officers directly accountable to Group Chief Investment Officer Bryan Yeo.

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Temasek’s US$401bn Portfolio Reset Puts AI and Private Credit at the Core

8th July, 2026

Temasek’s full transition to mark-to-market has lifted its Net Portfolio Value to S$518 billion (US$400.8 billion), moving Singapore’s state investor into the world’s Top 10 sovereign wealth funds as it directs more capital toward AI, private credit and infrastructure.

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Libya’s SWF Can Earn Again, But Its US$80bn Scale Still Needs Proof

19th June, 2026

The Libyan Investment Authority’s Q1 2026 figures show a fund moving beyond legal defence while still operating inside the UN sanctions system.

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CalPERS’ TPA Launch Takes Sovereign-Fund Logic Into The US Pension System

18th June, 2026

CalPERS’ July 1 shift to a Total Portfolio Approach is arriving with stronger performance, a still-underfunded balance sheet and a large private-market commitment load.

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Gulf SWFs And The Iran War: Three-Month Scenario Update

5th June, 2026

Three months into the Iran war, the Gulf is no longer in the first shock phase, but it is not back to normal. Energy flows have partly adapted, sovereign funding markets remain open, and the largest Gulf SWFs are still deploying capital.

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NPS Turns Korean Equity Rally Into Allocation Policy

29th May, 2026

South Korea’s National Pension Service has turned its domestic equity problem into allocation policy, as it tries to balance political objectives with its commercial mandate while having considerable heft in local markets.

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CalPERS Scrutiny Opens Wider Questions Over Private Markets In State-Owned Capital

25th May, 2026

A participant-funded forensic report has turned CalPERS’ private market strategy into a wider test of public capital transparency, as it accuses the largest US public pension fund of weak oversight, opaque costs, benchmark problems and incomplete disclosure of private asset economics.

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QIA Deal Moves Spain’s State Capital Plan Into Execution

22nd May, 2026

Spain is moving ahead with its state-investment plan, announced in January, to funding. The government has approved a EUR13.3 billion (US$15.4 billion) injection into the Official Credit Institute (ICO) for España Crece, while COFIDES is the Co-investment Fund (FOCO) to bring Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) into a EUR300 million (US$348 million) growth fund for Spanish companies.

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Syria’s New Sovereign Fund Puts State Assets At The Centre Of Reconstruction

21st May, 2026

Syria is building new institutions around reconstruction assets, donor funding and foreign investment in an effort to rebuild after years of a devastating civil war, despite the fragility of domestic governance.

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UzNIF’s IPO Is Really a Test of Uzbekistan’s Privatisation Machinery

11th May, 2026

Uzbekistan’s National Investment Fund’s (UzNIF) planned dual listing in London and Tashkent represents a privatisation platform divestment rather than as a conventional holding company IPO and is unique in that it is the first time a sovereign wealth fund has floated.

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Future Fund At 20: Birthday Numbers Show A Strong Fund And A Broader State Role

5th May, 2026

This week, Future Fund marked 20 years since the Australian government transferred the initial A$18 billion seed capital. The same day, the governing Board of Guardians released its March 2026 quarterly update showing the flagship fund at A$269.1 billion (US$192.2 billion), after a 0.6% gain in the quarter and an 11.7% return over 12 months, with total funds under management reached A$337.2 billion (US$240.8 billion).

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Gulf SWFs And The Iran War: Two-Month Scenario Update

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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