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CPP’s US$1.3bn Investment in Japanese Data Centres Is Latest Move in a Global Digital Land Grab

12th June, 2025

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has just staked a massive US$1.3 billion on Japan’s booming data centre market, anchoring Ares Management Corporation’s US$2.4 billion Japan DC Partners I (JDC I) fund.

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Kuwait Dives Into AI: What KIA’s Backing of Microsoft-led US$30bn Strategy Really Means

6th June, 2025

The artificial intelligence arms race just gained another trillion-dollar contender. This week, the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the world’s oldest and one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, announced it will become the first non-founder financial anchor in the Microsoft- and BlackRock-backed AI Infrastructure Partnership - a US$30 billion global initiative to bankroll the next generation of AI infrastructure.

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Macron Bets on the Gulf: How France Is Harnessing Saudi Arabia’s PIF for Economic Revival

20th May, 2025

With the French budget in crisis and foreign direct investment into startups falling off a cliff, President Emmanuel Macron is doubling down on his most reliable card: foreign capital from sovereign wealth giants.

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How Gulf Wealth Funds Are Rewiring the Future of Artificial Intelligence

13th May, 2025

This week, Saudi Arabia unveiled its latest strategic maneuver in the AI arms race: HUMAIN, a state-owned artificial intelligence company under the Public Investment Fund (PIF).

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HKIC Forges Alliance to Drive Hong Kong Greater Bay Area Healthcare Innovation

26th February, 2025

Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited (HKIC) has embarked on a groundbreaking partnership with New Frontier Group, signaling an ambitious push to transform medical research and healthcare services across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).

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DeepSeek Disruption: Magnificent 7 Crash Exposes Sovereign Wealth Fund Risks

28th January, 2025

The global markets have been rocked by the seismic impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has upended the prevailing assumptions about the cost and dominance of artificial intelligence.

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AI Geopolitics: Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Funds and Trump's AI Revolution

24th January, 2025

In a bold move signaling his return to office, President Donald Trump unveiled the US$500 billion Stargate initiative, the most significant AI infrastructure project in history.

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Korea’s Pensions Bet Big: Global Stocks, AI, and Real Estate in a Time of Turmoil

8th January, 2025

South Korea’s pension system is navigating a period of transformation against a backdrop of political upheaval and global economic challenges.

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QIA Joins Peers in Semiconductor Industry

23rd May, 2024

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is playing catch-up with its Saudi and Emirati peers with a major investment in semiconductors as the global market seeks to diversify production following the chip shortage of 2020-23.

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Korea's NPS and Saudi Arabia's PIF Look to AI Revolution

19th March, 2024

The height of the pandemic saw sovereign investors plunge capital into e-commerce and logistics real estate, but today the biggest focus of their tech investments is artificial intelligence and machine learning – and this month has seen a surge in activity among state-owned investors.

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Abu Dhabi Launches Mega Tech Investor the Size of SoftBank’s Vision Fund

12th March, 2024

The building of national champions with global reach is a major theme of strategic sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf region. Abu Dhabi’s launch of a global tech investment firm on a scale of SoftBank’s first Vision Fund, backed by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala and native AI firm G42, ramps up the rivalry between the Emirate and initiatives backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).

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Biotech Boom Supported with US$5.5bn from State-Owned Investors

19th November, 2021

The pandemic has fuelled investor interest in biotech, life sciences and drug discovery with state-owned investors ploughing more than US$5.5 billion into the space so far this year, mostly in the form of venture capital for startups – an increase of 53% over the whole of 2020.

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