14th November, 2024
On Thursday, ADIA released its results for the year ended on December 31, 2023 – and below is our usual reading between the lines, for our subscribers:
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8th November, 2024
The government of Canada’s Alberta province has sacked the board and CEO of its US$115 billion public pension fund over rising costs.
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5th November, 2024
The rise in the value of the yen and poor performance in domestic equities has delivered Japan’s gigantic Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) its biggest quarterly loss since the pandemic struck in 2020 with a return of -3.6%.
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24th October, 2024
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) reported another quarter of underperformance as its oil-backed Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) struggled with geopolitical uncertainty and downside risk to public equities.
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18th October, 2024
The KRW1.2 trillion (US$875 million) Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has paid to external managers for its global equities portfolio over the past three years is not good value for money, according to a lawmaker from the country’s ruling People Power Party, reports The Korea Times.
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9th October, 2024
The Norwegian government is planning to tap into its US$1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund to plug a fiscal hole in its 2025 budget plans, but the world's biggest state-owned investor can absorb even multi-billion withdrawals by dint of its massive scale and long-term growth.
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1st October, 2024
Bahrain may be the smallest country in the GCC in terms of population and economy, but its Sovereign Investment industry is well developed, with two active SWFs: one for stabilization and savings function (Future Generation Reserve, or FGR) and another one for strategic and development purposes (Mumtalakat). The FGR had been a relatively low-profile SWF until 2020, when the government of Bahrain withdrew US$ 450 million, or half of its assets back then, to maintain economic stability. The withdrawal was followed by a change in the deposit rules, and the fund has been growing again thanks to new inflows and strong investment returns.
9th September, 2024
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) continues to beat peers with another strong result boosted by public equities which enabled it to report a 14.9% return in the year to end-June, helping to boost coffers by NZ$11 billion (US$6.8 billion) to reach NZ$77 billion (US$47.4 billion) in FY2023/24.
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30th August, 2024
South Korea’s National Pension Fund (NPS) is set for an overhaul as it struggles to prove it will provide long-term financial security for the country’s ageing population, although it logged a strong performance in H1 2024 with a return of 9.71% led by robust growth in public equity.
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19th August, 2024
Vision 2030 is an overriding mission of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which has drained cash reserves and drawn on its global portfolio to bolster the Kingdom’s economic diversification program, but the fund continues its path towards US$1 trillion in 2025 and US$2 trillion by the end of the decade.
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15th August, 2024
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), managed by Norges Bank (NBIM), reported an 8.6% return in H1, with strong growth in public equities offsetting a disappointing result in other asset classes.
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14th August, 2024
The performance of Canada’s highly transparent public pension funds can serve as a barometer for trends across the global institutional investor universe, including highly opaque sovereign wealth funds.
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