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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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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18th November, 2025
Temasek’s US-listed equity portfolio has grown steadily more concentrated, more technology-heavy and more tied to global financial infrastructure over the past 18 months, according to its quarterly 13F filings.
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17th November, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has just done something that, on paper, looks like a rapid exit from US public equities.
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11th November, 2025
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is weighing a tactical increase in its domestic equity exposure after this year’s sharp stock market rally pushed the fund up against its own allocation limits, forcing a collision between long-term diversification policy and short-term political and market pressures.
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10th November, 2025
For years, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has tried to be predictable. It has presented itself as a long-term, rules-based investor whose job is to turn oil and gas revenues into broad, steady exposure to the global economy.
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4th November, 2025
Kuwait’s Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) is preparing to restart private equity commitments after a three-year pause, a move that could re-introduce a large, long-duration LP into a market still wrestling with slow exits and uneven fundraising.
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24th October, 2025
Azerbaijan’s State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has powered through 2025 with the strongest balance-sheet expansion in its history, but the very engines of that growth – notably its high concentration in gold – also sharpen the downside if conditions turn.
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10th October, 2025
Panama’s Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá (FAP) has quietly undergone a major structural upgrade. The sovereign wealth fund exchanged a portfolio of non-tradable government promissory notes for liquid Republic of Panama bonds, thereby turning paper promises into real, marketable assets.
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