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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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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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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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$240.8 billion).
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4th May, 2026
Kuwait Investment Authority’s (KIA) reported entry into Seoul’s Yeouido IFC points to continued external capital deployment at a time when Kuwait’s oil export system is under acute pressure.
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1st May, 2026
South Africa’s GEPF is the continent’s largest institutional investor, with a US$ 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.
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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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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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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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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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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