Oil and petrochemical giants Aramco and SABIC are to spearhead a new $1.3trn Shareek (Partner) programme…
Topic: sovereign wealth funds
Sovereign wealth funds and their investment around the world
SAMI plans to bring Saudi defence home
Saudi Arabia intends to be spending 50% of its military budget on equipment made at home…
Saudi replaces bank governor as PIF changes tack
New SAMA governor's appointment coincides with PIF sovereign wealth fund's push to attract more investment into…
MBS draws The Line
The Line will be a 100-mile pedestrianised belt of carbon-free communities big enough to house million…
Jakarta pledges $5bn to Indonesian sovereign wealth fund
The authorities in Jakarta are getting set to sink just over $5bn in the new Indonesian…
Jio valuation jumps on prospect of digital India
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has bought a 1.15% stake in Jio Platforms for $750m …
Gulf’s sovereign wealth funds snap up US stocks
The sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia (PIF) and Qatar (QIA) are planning to capitalise on…
Spotlight falls on CEFC as Qatar sovereign wealth fund signs up to EN+ IPO
Qatar’s sovereign investment fund the QIA has applied to invest $250m in the $1.5bn IPO of…
Putin celebrates as Qatar wealth fund and Glencore buy $11bn Rosneft stake
Russian President Vladimir Putin took to the TV airways yesterday to celebrate the news that the…
Islamic banking proposal could see ‘trillions of dollars’ flood into India
Islamic banking: Moves by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to offer its banks an “Islamic window”…
China’s CIC sovereign fund posts first losses in four years
CIC: Battered by falling commodity prices and weak currencies, China’s $814bn China Investment Corp sovereign wealth fund…
Silk Road Fund eyes up Glencore’s Kazakh mine in Chinese gold rush
China’s state-backed $40bn Silk Road Fund has teamed up with the China National Gold Group Corporation to explore…
Qatar Investment Authority eyes up Russian energy and property sectors
A delegation from Qatar including ruling family member and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) sovereign wealth fund chief Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed…
Prince shares vision of new $2trn Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Aramco sale
Saudi sovereign wealth fund: Saudi Arabia preparing for the life after oil by creating the world’s largest sovereign…
Seven top managers go as Kazakhstan restructures Samruk Kazyna
Kazakhstan’s Samruk Kazyna sovereign wealth fund is to lose seven of its managing directors in a…
Samruk Kazyna to privatise 22 more assets this year
Samruk Kazyna to privatise 22 more assets: Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna Welfare Fund is looking to privatize 22 more assets…
Kazakh rail enterprises biggest draw in privatisation programme
Interest in Kazakh rail enterprises helped Kazkahstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna offload 12 of the 64 assets it…
Altel to spearhead Kazakhstan’s seven-year 4G network drive
Kazakhtelecom subsidiary Altel is to spearhead Kazkhstan’s drive to improve its telecommunications infrastructure with a KTZ105bn project that…
Yamal LNG allocated $2.6bn for construction of South Tambeisky facility
Yamal LNG: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev late last week signed a resolution that will see…
Kazakh road network to get $6bn cash injection over next five years
Kazakh road network: President Nursultan Nazarbayev has instructed Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund to earmark KZT321bn (US$1.76bn) over the next…
Massimov sets out rationale for Kazakh privatisation program
Karim Massimov, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister, today told a plenary session of the country’s Majilis that the second…
Samruk Kazyna restructures and gets set to appoint foreign directors
Samruk Kazyna restructures: Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna is getting ready to appoint international experts to…
Samruk-Kazyna privatisations attract US and European FDI
Samruk-Kazyna privatisations: US and European investors have been expressing an interest in a number of the…
Samruk Kazyna restructure set to halve company portfolio
Samruk Kazyna restructure : Kazakhstan’s National Welfare Fund Samruk Kazyna is planning to halve the number of companies…