30th July, 2026
Germany’s EUR25.6 billion (US$30.1 billion) nuclear waste fund remains ahead of its funding requirement, but its investment strategy is entering a more demanding phase.
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29th July, 2026
Mubadala Capital has opened tokenised access to an evergreen private-markets strategy across Base, Solana and Sui. The US$75 million launch is small, but it extends the sovereign-owned manager’s established model of seeding investment products with its own capital and raising outside money around them.
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23rd July, 2026
A portfolio containing “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Bad Romance” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” might sound like the soundtrack to a distressed assets meeting, but for GIC and Sony Music Group it is the background music of a royalty portfolio reportedly worth close to US$4 billion.
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15th July, 2026
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s 14.8% return was powered by equities, but its rebuilt private equity programme made the result stronger.
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23rd June, 2026
After years of pouring capital into private markets, sovereign wealth funds are facing a less comfortable phase. Fund stakes bought for long horizons are staying on balance sheets for longer than expected, and some are now being sold before managers can deliver exits.
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17th June, 2026
Bridgewater’s fund performance has recovered under Nir Bar Dea, but state-owned investors are going in different directions as it churns out better returns for clients but weaker valuations for some owners.
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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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25th March, 2026
China Investment Corporation’s recent talks with Blackstone and TPG suggest that its 2025 retreat from US private equity was a pause in form of access rather than a full exit.
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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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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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13th November, 2025
In the past two years, public-to-private (P2P) deals have re-emerged as one of the most reliable channels for private capital deployment at a time of volatility, with sovereign wealth funds serving as anchors and cornerstone investors in consortium take-privates.
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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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