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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22nd May, 2024
State-owned investors are adding to the surge of private credit investment as the US$1.7 trillion global private credit market offers higher, floating rates of return.
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21st May, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) slashed its US public equity holdings by 41.7% to US$20.56 billion in the first quarter of 2024, with its biggest stockholding EV carmaker Lucid slumping by 32.3% in value and non-Lucid holdings falling 43.5% to the lowest level since end-Q2 2021 as PIF dumped massive chunks of its equity portfolio.
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20th May, 2024
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala has joined an elite of top 10 sovereign wealth funds as its AUM rose above US$300 billion in 2023 with Global SWF calculating an annual return of 15.4%, based on its increase in five-year return of 10.3% and proprietary data analysis of historical returns.
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17th May, 2024
Mubadala Energy is set to change Indonesia’s energy profile radically with back-to-back gas discoveries in a highly prospective deepwater play.
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16th May, 2024
TPG Rise Climate vehicle has won another state-owned investor for its carbon-cutting mission with the US$320 billion Saudi public pension fund manager Hassana – part of the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) – making forming a US$1.5 billion partnership, including a “substantial anchor commitment” to the new Transition Infrastructure fund and an allocation to the TPG Rise Climate II fund.
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15th May, 2024
Malaysia Airports (MAHB) is set to be taken over by an alliance of Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah and its public pension fund the Employees Provident Fund along with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
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14th May, 2024
The US$846 billion Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) is unlikely to escape the impact of the political upheaval in Kuwait over the weekend, but the developments could finally end the uncertainty that has clouded the fund in recent years.
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13th May, 2024
France’s strategic investor Bpifrance has strengthened its relationships with Gulf peers with a series of agreements with sovereign wealth funds of Kuwait, Qatar and Abu Dhabi committing capital to French startups.
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10th May, 2024
Mubadala is joining in the modern day goldrush for green hydrogen, focused on Australia where the government is backing efforts to utilize renewable energy for new industrial purposes.
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9th May, 2024
Canadian pension fund CDPQ has a voracious appetite for renewables investments, but like other state-owned investors it is coming up against the limits of suitable opportunities that meet its expectations.
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8th May, 2024
The Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will be investing a larger share of its US$177 billion portfolio in Europe after it opened its first overseas office in London, becoming the latest Australian super fund to channel billions through new London offices.
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