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Pakistan’s SWF Plan Hits the Limits of IMF Power

8th May, 2026

Pakistan’s Sovereign Wealth Fund still exists in law, but the IMF is determining what sort of institution it can be in practice.

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Russia’s NWF Gets Relief From the Iran War, Not a Return to Depth

7th May, 2026

Russia’s National Wealth Fund has become one of the clearest measures of how the state has adapted to pressure since 2022. The fund still gives Moscow a usable fiscal buffer, and the Iran war has improved that buffer at the margin by lifting oil prices and allowing the Finance Ministry to restart small purchases for the NWF.

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PIF’s Shanghai Office Extends A China Platform For Capital, Partners And Localisation

6th May, 2026

PIF’s new Shanghai office is not simply a conventional overseas investment outpost but rather a China platform for the next phase of Saudi state capital.

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Future Fund At 20: Birthday Numbers Show A Strong Fund And A Broader State Role

5th May, 2026

This week, Future Fund marked 20 years since the Australian government transferred the initial A$18 billion seed capital. The same day, the governing Board of Guardians released its March 2026 quarterly update showing the flagship fund at A$269.1 billion (US$192.2 billion), after a 0.6% gain in the quarter and an 11.7% return over 12 months, with total funds under management reached A$337.2 billion (US$240.8 billion).

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KIA’s Korea Entry Tests Kuwait’s Sovereign Capital Sequencing

4th May, 2026

Kuwait Investment Authority’s (KIA) reported entry into Seoul’s Yeouido IFC points to continued external capital deployment at a time when Kuwait’s oil export system is under acute pressure.

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Fund of the Month (May'26): South Africa's GEPF

1st May, 2026

South Africa’s GEPF is the continent’s largest institutional investor, with a US$ 144 billion portfolio as of March 31, 2025, which is invested by its asset manager organization, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). We were delighted to speak with GEPF’s Principal Executive Officer, Mr. Musa Mabesa, about the fund’s growth, the current strategy to put that capital to work, and its future outlook.

Gulf SWFs And The Iran War: Two-Month Scenario Update

30th April, 2026

Two months after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, Gulf SWFs are acting according to mandate rather than market sentiment.

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OIA’s bilateral model is moving from country funds to a co-investment network

29th April, 2026

Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna and the Oman Investment Authority (OIA) signed Heads of Terms in this month covering industry, healthcare, energy, consumer, logistics and mining, but with no disclosed capital size and no fixed vehicle yet.

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Canada Strong Fund Tests A New Sovereign Development Model

28th April, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s brainchild Canada Strong Fund is not Canada’s answer to Norway’s US$2 trillion Government Pension Fund Global - it is a different kind of sovereign vehicle, a leaner federal equity investor for a deficit-running economy that wants to turn public capital into ownership stakes in strategic domestic assets.

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Paramount-WBD Deal Turns Into A Gulf Capital Test

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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Iran War And Tech Sell-Off Expose Different Risks At Norway's NBIM And Netherlands' ABP

24th April, 2026

NBIM and ABP both reported negative first quarter results, but the losses affected them differently.

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Maharlika sharpens its domestic focus in the Philippines

23rd April, 2026

Maharlika is now clearly operating as a strategic sovereign wealth fund with capital directed into a narrow set of domestic sectors where the Philippine state has a direct interest in resilience and supply security, rather than into a diversified global portfolio.

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