25th April, 2025
Something big is happening in 2025. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) - the US$13 trillion heavyweights of state capitalism - are no longer just chasing yield. They're making political moves.
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21st April, 2025
A tectonic shift is under way in global capital markets as Chinese sovereign wealth funds quietly retreat from the once-fertile fields of US private equity.
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9th April, 2025
Markets have snapped. Trump’s dramatic tariff volley has set off a chain reaction. China hit back fast and global stocks are erratic amid a guessing game over the mercurial President Trump's next move.
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27th September, 2024
China Investment Corporation (CIC) released on Friday its 2023 Annual Report, with some positive results. The overseas investments of the Chinese SWF returned +10.7% in the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2023, for a 10-year annualized return of 6.6%, right at the world's average.
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19th June, 2024
Sovereign wealth fund interest in Japan is modest compared to economies of a similar size and diversity, but this could all change with Asian and Middle Eastern funds showing increasing interest.
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5th June, 2024
*Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat may be a minnow compared to its Saudi, Emirati and Qatari peers, but is swimming towards stronger currents of capital with an agreement forged with the China Investment Corporation (CIC).
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8th April, 2024
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) is reportedly in dialogue with Bahrain-based Investcorp to potentially back a US$800 million investment vehicle that will back pre-IPO Middle Eastern companies.
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28th March, 2024
The UK’s biggest water utility, Thames Water, which is two-thirds owned by state-owned investors, looks set to be renationalized – at least temporarily – after its shareholders refused to throw it a financial lifeline.
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3rd January, 2024
The Thames Water debacle has burned the fingers of state-owned investors who had backed the privatized water utility, in the belief infrastructure assets in a stable, well-regulated market like the UK were a safe bet.
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4th December, 2023
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) followed the trend seen across the sovereign investor universe in 2022, reporting its biggest ever decline in its total portfolio value with an annual return that Global SWF estimates at 10.7% - but the year proved to be exceptional with market indices suggesting that losses have been mostly or fully reversed in 2023 and the world’s second biggest sovereign wealth fund bounced back in the Chinese year of the rabbit.
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13th November, 2023
On Friday, Reuters reported that the China Investment Corporation (CIC) finally found a new chief representative officer for its only overseas office, almost a year after it became vacant. Clare Xiaoqing Bai, a Managing Director that currently serves as Global Head of Private Equity, will move from Beijing to New York to replace Hong Zhang, a trained attorney that spent six years trying to improve the relationships and in-roads of CIC with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
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13th October, 2023
China’s state-owned investors are throwing their massive weight behind troubled domestic stocks in a sign that Beijing is using government wealth to stabilize markets.
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