24th July, 2023
Global warming and related water scarcity are raising fears of rising food scarcity among populations already living on the edge, yet the arid desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia is plotting a path towards greater food self-sufficiency and cash crop production led by its burgeoning sovereign wealth fund.
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21st July, 2023
While private equity has taken a pummeling recently, the long-term performance of two civil servant pension funds at the opposite sides of the world indicates that the asset class - along with real estate, infrastructure and private credit - will remain crucial to covering long-term pension liabilities.
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20th July, 2023
Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are fond of multi-billion-dollar bilateral agreements and this week was no exception with Bahrain’s Mumtalakat party to a US$1.3 billion pledge to invest in the UK economy while the UAE’s ADQ has promised to stump up US$11.5 billion to support the Turkish economy.
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19th July, 2023
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has teamed up with Singapore-based real estate investor SC Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Asset Management to acquire a portfolio of 27 Japanese hotels from Daiwa House Industry for US$900 million.
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18th July, 2023
India is in the sights of US$288 billion Singaporean state-owned investor Temasek which will pour US$10 billion into the world’s most populous country over the next three years, according to Ravi Lambah, its head of India.
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17th July, 2023
Kuwait announced it is launching a new sovereign wealth fund with a strategic domestic economic development mandate, just days after the Minister of Finance quit his post after control of the country’s existing SWF – the US$801 billion Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) – was transferred to another ministry.
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14th July, 2023
With combined assets under management of US$1.45 trillion, South Korea’s state-owned investors – comprised of one sovereign wealth fund and six public pension funds – are major players in global markets, and their evolving strategies are set to have a significant impact on investment flows, with alternative asset classes set to be the main winners.
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13th July, 2023
Japan’s JPY200.1 trillion (US$1.45 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) continued to weather geopolitical turmoil and a high inflation environment, notching up a 1.5% return for FY2022 (to end-March 2023) from a highly liquid portfolio that was boosted by strong performance in domestic public equity.
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12th July, 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) reported a US$11 billion loss for 2022 as global markets tanked, but its annual accounts filed this week with the London Stock Exchange show it has ramped up its Middle East holdings by a staggering US$94 billion to US$175 billion (up 166%) in just two years as it seeks to become a regional investor heavyweight.
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11th July, 2023
On Tuesday afternoon, Temasek announced its FY23 results, and it was not pretty. For the year ended March 31, 2023, the Singaporean investor booked a -5.1% SGD return (or -3.4% in USD) and a -5.2% loss in portfolio value, from SGD 401 billion (USD 298 billion) to SGD 382 billion (USD 288 billion).
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10th July, 2023
State-owned investors originated nearly US$20 billion in real estate deals in the first half of 2023, excluding their commitments to funds overseen by third party asset managers.
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7th July, 2023
On Thursday and Friday this week, Agaciro Development Fund hosted the second annual meeting of the African Sovereign Investors Forum (ASIF) in Kigali, Rwanda. The Forum was started by Morocco’s Ithmar Capital last year in Rabat in an attempt to increase collaboration among African SWFs, to compare notes of common challenges, and to create appealing, sizeable, Pan-African investment opportunities for foreign (e.g., Middle Eastern) SWFs.
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