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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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