26th August, 2025
DP World’s 30-year, US$800 million Tartus port concession deal is Syria’s first real post-war anchor and is meant to pull in bigger balance sheets and re-open the economy, just months after the Russian navy withdrew following the collapse of the Assad regime.
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22nd August, 2025
Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is doing something many emerging market petro-states fumble: growing even while the government spends from it.
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20th August, 2025
Mozambique’s newborn sovereign wealth fund (FSM) is starting to look like a real fund rather than a legislative ambition.
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7th July, 2025
In late 2023, Ireland set out to achieve what most European countries can only dream of: leveraging record fiscal surpluses into not one, but two sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), aimed at shielding the country from demographic headwinds and the looming costs of climate adaptation.
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27th June, 2025
Sweden’s pension system - held up as a global gold standard - is about to undergo radical surgery. The Swedish Parliament has now given the green light to the most sweeping overhaul in a quarter-century: a forced merger that will see the country’s five AP buffer funds consolidated into just three by January 2026.
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20th June, 2025
Investors and regional analysts were left reeling when Djibouti’s government abruptly dissolved its Sovereign Wealth Fund (Fonds Souverain de Djibouti, FSD) in late April 2025, just weeks after the highly acclaimed Djibouti Forum and four months after renewing the CEO's three-year mandate.
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19th June, 2025
The eastern Mediterranean's energy landscape has always been complex, but in 2025, Cyprus faces a critical juncture.
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11th June, 2025
In a region characterised by fiscal fragility and donor dependence, the tiny state of Eswatini recently made a bold move: launching a US$275 million sovereign wealth fund (SWF) to reboot its economic trajectory, no doubt taking inspiration from more established African SWFs such as Rwanda's Agaciro Fund and Nigeria's NSIA.
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28th May, 2025
Sarawak took a step forward in its bold economic vision with the Sarawak Sovereign Wealth Future Fund (SSWFF) given the greenlight to begin investing globally.
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19th May, 2025
Taiwan stands at a fiscal crossroads. With over US$567 billion in foreign exchange reserves - the sixth largest stockpile in the world - it has the firepower to build a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that could deliver national returns and raise its global profile.
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15th May, 2025
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February directing the Treasury and Commerce departments to devise a plan for a US sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the announcement generated intense debate across both Washington and Wall Street.
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14th April, 2025
Indonesia’s ambitious push to supercharge its economy just got a major vote of confidence - at least on paper.
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