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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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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21st October, 2025
Saudi Aramco’s latest monetisation of its vast Jafurah gas project has pulled in US$11 billion of fresh capital and given sovereign wealth and public pension funds another large, durable way to put money to work in the Gulf without taking a direct bet on commodity prices.
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7th October, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is lining up its first euro-denominated green bond, split into three- and seven-year tranches with Crédit Agricole CIB, JPMorgan and Société Générale running the books.
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30th September, 2025
Electronic Arts is going private in the largest leveraged buyout on record. The US$55 billion deal, led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, pulls one of gaming’s most influential publishers off public markets and puts it in the center of Riyadh’s Vision 2030 industrial strategy.
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8th August, 2025
Football transfer windows rarely generate headlines in boardrooms and among institutional investors, but the arrival of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has changed that calculus entirely.
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2nd July, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) just dropped its 2024 numbers - and on the surface, they look stellar with assets up 18% to SAR4.32 trillion (US$1.15 trillion).
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24th June, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) signaled a further development in its financing strategy with the launch of a dual commercial paper (CP) program in both US and Euro markets via offshore special-purpose vehicles.
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3rd June, 2025
India is pulling out all the stops to court Saudi Arabia’s mighty Public Investment Fund (PIF). In a fast-paced bid to unlock up to US$100 billion of Saudi investment, New Delhi has proposed a 10-year tax holiday on profits and sweeping exemptions on interest, dividends, and capital gains for PIF.
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16th May, 2025
Donald Trump's May 2025 Gulf tour wasn't a diplomatic charm offensive, it was a commercial onslaught.
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5th May, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has engaged the debt markets again with a US$1.25 billion, seven-year sukuk - its second debt sale of 2025 - with pricing tightened from an initial 145 basis points over US Treasuries to just 110bps after drawing more than US$8.2 billion in orders.
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22nd January, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is making bold moves to secure the funding necessary for its ambitious Vision 2030 transformation.
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