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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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