23rd February, 2026
Sweden’s AP7 has spent most of its 25-year history running a vast, low-cost, largely outsourced global equity portfolio for premium pension savers, but in in 2025 that model delivered a modest 4.2% total return which was subdued compared with the prior year’s surge yet still consistent with its long-term objectives.
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20th February, 2026
The lunar calendar turned to the Year of the Fire Horse this week. In traditional Chinese symbolism, the Horse represents movement, independence and forward drive, while the Fire element adds intensity and volatility.
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2nd February, 2026
For most of its first two decades, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) looked like a classical mega-sovereign wealth fund: global diversification, long-duration ownership and selective strategic stakes, with the main question being what to own and where.
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27th January, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s reported restructuring of the Neom giga-project marks more than a project reset. It reflects a deeper institutional shift in how Vision 2030 is financed, governed and executed.
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21st January, 2026
When UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – aka MBZ – visited India on 19 January, the joint statement that followed ranged across trade, defence, energy, technology and education.
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20th January, 2026
Indonesia enters 2026 with two sovereign investment vehicles that were in danger of blurring boundaries, but are now being pushed into distinct roles, finally resolving questions Global SWF asked throughout 2025: how is the Southeast Asian state defining their distinct mandates?
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19th January, 2026
When concerns began to circulate late last year that the Trump administration was preparing to upend the tax treatment of SWFs, the reaction saw lawyers issue alerts, investors reviewing strategies and fund managers fielded anxious calls.
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7th January, 2026
After more than a year of internal review and external consultation, Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has formally committed to adopting a Total Portfolio Approach (TPA), marking a significant evolution in both its investment framework and organisational model.
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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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3rd December, 2025
China Investment Corporation’s plan to sell about US$1 billion of US private equity fund stakes is a small transaction relative to its US$1.3 trillion balance sheet – but it captures a much larger shift in how Chinese sovereign capital engages with Wall Street.
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2nd December, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is at the centre of two very different stories. Abroad, the Public Investment Fund (PIF) is backing the record US$55bn leveraged buyout of video-game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), reinforcing its image as a bold global investor. At home, large domestic “giga-projects” are being written down, timelines are slipping and the fund is borrowing more heavily than in the early years of Vision 2030.
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26th November, 2025
Singapore state investor Temasek is tightening the lines between its in-house investment arms, folding private equity specialist Pavilion Capital into asset manager Seviora Group in a move that underlines its push to build a larger, more coherent Asian private-markets business.
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