17th February, 2025
Indonesia is leaping ahead with a sovereign wealth fund it says will be seeded with US$900 billion of assets.
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4th February, 2025
Donald Trump’s latest executive order to create a US sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is as audacious as it is controversial.
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3rd February, 2025
Sweden’s government is set to execute one of the biggest overhauls of its state pension buffer fund system in 25 years, aiming to cut the number of funds from six to four by 2026.
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27th January, 2025
In a bold debut, the Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC), the Philippines' fledgling sovereign wealth fund, has made its first major investment: a 20% stake in the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
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21st January, 2025
With President Donald Trump’s second term officially underway, the global investment community is bracing for a period of economic turbulence and geopolitical recalibration.
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10th December, 2024
Guinea is the latest SSA state to announce a planned new SWF, although details on the timeframe, governance and size of the fund are hazy - even though it could yield billions from the exploitation of the country's massive, high quality iron ore reserves.
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11th November, 2024
The Indonesian government is delaying its launch of its new sovereign wealth fund, named Danantara, until President Prabowo Subianto returns from his overseas trip towards the end of next week.
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3rd October, 2024
Facing revenue and spending pressures, two southern African countries – Zambia and Botswana – are examining proposals for sovereign wealth funds with a stabilization mandate, but given their structural challenges and spending pressures the plans maybe too little, too late.
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19th September, 2024
A ruling by the EU’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has demanded that tech giant Apple pays the Irish government EUR13 billion (US$14 billion) in back taxes, claiming that it benefitted from an illegal tax break.
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10th September, 2024
Despite being the world’s biggest economy attracting the bulk of sovereign capital, the US lacks a federal-level sovereign wealth fund of its own – but this could all be about the change with rivals in the presidential election pitching their visions of state capitalism.
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2nd September, 2024
India’s central bank the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), stock exchange regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and officials from the new finance hub, GIFT City, are reportedly exploring the launch of a new sovereign wealth fund, in addition to the existing National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).
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20th August, 2024
The Mozambique Sovereign Fund (FSM) has started receiving modest inflows with US$114 million of gas revenue funnelled into its coffers over the first half of 2024.
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