28th May, 2026
Mubadala has realised more than US$3 billion from GlobalFoundries in less than one quarter and yet still controls the strategically important semiconductor producer.
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18th May, 2026
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pension Funds saw their portfolios of US Equities decrease in value significantly during the first quarter of 2026, due to the War in Iran and the subsequent effect in oil prices and global financial markets. According to the quarterly filings released by SEC this week, the average holdings of Sovereign Investors would have fallen 12% by March 31, after all investments and exits.
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14th May, 2026
The Q1 rise in disclosed Gulf holdings of Chinese A-shares was mainly driven by ADIA.
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27th April, 2026
Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has moved from an aggressive, heavily syndicated offer into a shareholder-approved transaction whose main risks now sit in regulation, financing execution and Gulf sovereign capital capacity.
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24th April, 2026
NBIM and ABP both reported negative first quarter results, but the losses affected them differently.
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18th February, 2026
Temasek’s latest 13F filing for end-December 2025 confirms that its US-listed portfolio is being run as a high-conviction expression of a small number of long-term themes rather than a benchmark-style allocation.
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17th February, 2026
Mubadala’s latest 13F filing for Q4 2025 confirms that its US-listed equity portfolio remains dominated by a single strategic industrial holding, but the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has broadened the rest of its portfolio, making it more thematic and more active than it has been for several quarters.
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15th January, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s IPO pipeline for 2026 is sizeable by any regional standard. But the headline number of listings matters less than who is driving them, and why. At the centre of that story sits the Public Investment Fund (PIF).
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6th January, 2026
The Public Investment Fund remains the controlling shareholder of Lucid Group, and its long-term strategy toward the investment continues to attract scrutiny.
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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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