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Paramount’s Warner Bid Shows How Gulf Funds Now Back US Media Deals At Arm’s Length

9th December, 2025

Paramount Skydance’s hostile offer for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is an example of how Gulf sovereign wealth capital is being used in politically sensitive US sectors as funding partners without formal influence.

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Maple 8’s AI Bet: Concentrated Risk, US$55bn+ Potential Losses in Crash Scenario

24th November, 2025

Canada’s big public funds are sitting on sizeable AI-linked positions in their US equity portfolios, which could result in losses of at least US$55 billion across the Maple 8 in the event of a dot-com-style crash – implying a direct hit on combined assets of around 2.5-3.0%, even before contagion effects are factored in.

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ADIA’s Ooredoo Selldown Highlights Changing Ties in Gulf Capital Markets

20th November, 2025

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is selling half of its 10% stake in Ooredoo, the Qatari telecoms group, in a secondary share sale that could raise up to US$572 million.

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Mubadala’s Public Equity Strategy: Chips, Credit and Crypto, Revisited

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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Temasek’s Quiet High-Conviction Bet on Big Finance, Big Tech and Asian Platforms

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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From US$56 Billion to Six Stocks: What PIF’s Brutal 13F Shrink Really Means

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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SWFs are Driving the Take-Private Surge

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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NPS weighs tactical boost to Korean equities as rally tests policy limits

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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When the Umpire Takes the Field: How Norway’s Oil Fund Became a Cautious ESG Enforcer

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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PIF’s US$55 Billion Bet on Electronic Arts: Gaming, Power, and Politics

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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Mubadala’s du Selldown Demonstrates Portfolio Management and Local Equity Playbook

11th September, 2025

Mubadala’s secondary sale of up to 7.55% of du (EITC) signals how sovereign capital is steering the UAE’s equity markets in 2025, as well as demonstrating its bid to liquidise assets through public markets as it redeploys capital to other strategic sectors.

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NPS mid-2025: Solid Returns, Currency Volatility, and a Strategic Tilt

9th September, 2025

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a +4.08% money-weighted return in the first half of 2025, generating KRW 49.8 trillion (US$36.9 billion) of investment income.

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