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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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27th April, 2026
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has moved from an aggressive, heavily syndicated offer into a shareholder-approved transaction whose main risks now sit in regulation, financing execution and Gulf sovereign capital capacity.
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23rd April, 2026
Maharlika is now clearly operating as a strategic sovereign wealth fund with capital directed into a narrow set of domestic sectors where the Philippine state has a direct interest in resilience and supply security, rather than into a diversified global portfolio.
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22nd April, 2026
Azalea’s planned evergreen private equity fund is less important for its likely size than for what it reveals about Temasek’s new structure.
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16th April, 2026
PIF’s 2026-2030 strategy formalises three shifts Global SWF had already identified in recent months. It separates developmental capital, strategic ownership and financia-return capital more clearly and places more weight on monetisation and funding resilience as the portfolio matures and the fund advances towards the final phase of Vision 2030.
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