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Botswana’s Billion-Dollar Dilemma: Should the Pula Fund Bet on De Beers?

10th June, 2025

For years, Botswana’s Pula Fund has been hailed as a model of fiscal discipline: a sovereign wealth fund that quietly turned diamond wealth into long-term national security.

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Danantara’s Bid for GoTo: A Strategic Power Play in the Battle for Indonesia’s Digital Soul

9th June, 2025

Indonesia had bold visions for its new sovereign wealth fund, Danantara, when it was launched in early 2025: to mirror Singapore’s Temasek in backing national champions, fueling industrial modernisation, and asserting control over the country’s digital destiny.

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India Offers Tax Holidays to Reel In Saudi Arabia’s US$100 Billion Investment Windfall

3rd June, 2025

India is pulling out all the stops to court Saudi Arabia’s mighty Public Investment Fund (PIF). In a fast-paced bid to unlock up to US$100 billion of Saudi investment, New Delhi has proposed a 10-year tax holiday on profits and sweeping exemptions on interest, dividends, and capital gains for PIF.

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Macron Bets on the Gulf: How France Is Harnessing Saudi Arabia’s PIF for Economic Revival

20th May, 2025

With the French budget in crisis and foreign direct investment into startups falling off a cliff, President Emmanuel Macron is doubling down on his most reliable card: foreign capital from sovereign wealth giants.

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Taiwan’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Debate: Visionary Leap or Strategic Risk?

19th May, 2025

Taiwan stands at a fiscal crossroads. With over US$567 billion in foreign exchange reserves - the sixth largest stockpile in the world - it has the firepower to build a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that could deliver national returns and raise its global profile.

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Trump's Trillion-Dollar Gulf Play: Business First, Allies Second

16th May, 2025

Donald Trump's May 2025 Gulf tour wasn't a diplomatic charm offensive, it was a commercial onslaught.

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Oman’s OIA Is Going Global, But With a Purpose at Home

7th May, 2025

Oman’s sovereign wealth fund inked a US$300 million joint fund with Algeria this week, marking the latest move in a sweeping strategy that’s turning the Oman Investment Authority (OIA) into an active, globally networked sovereign investors that is punching above its weight.

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Kuwait's Bold Bet: Following the Gulf's Massive Investment Surge in Egypt

28th April, 2025

Kuwait is converting its US$4 billion in deposits at Egypt's Central Bank into direct investments, following Gulf peers in significantly ramping up economic stakes in Egypt

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Trump’s America First? SWF Capital Has Other Plans

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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The Great Pullback: China’s Sovereign Giants Recalibrate Their Private Equity Playbook

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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The Plundering of Iran’s NDF: How a Generational Safety Net Became a Government Piggy Bank

17th April, 2025

In 2011, Iran launched the National Development Fund (NDF) with the lofty ambition of preserving its oil wealth for future generations, insulating the economy from oil price shocks, and funding sustainable, private-sector-led development.

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Pensions in Retreat: How Canada’s US$1.75trn PPFs Are Reacting to Trump’s America

16th April, 2025

Canada’s biggest pension funds aren’t panicking - yet. But they are pulling back. And the reason is spelled in bold across every boardroom on Bay Street: Trump.

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