Sovereign funds

Norway is to debate whether the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund – funded by petroleum revenues – should stop investing...

The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund is looking to more than double the number of industry specialists in its equities...

The nondescript building housing the South African Public Investment Corporation in a business park in Pretoria gives little...

Former athletes’ accommodation at London’s Olympic Village is being rented out on long-term tenancies with no fees or estate...

Norway’s $810bn Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has been barred from investing in...

Libya’s sovereign wealth fund has taken formal legal action in London against Goldman Sachs over allegations that the...

The long-serving Gao Xiqing, who almost starved to death in the Cultural Revolution and went on to help found China’s first...

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has agreed to buy half of Broadgate, a large office and retail complex at the heart of the...

Norway’s $815bn oil fund faces a crucial year with several big decisions expected on its strategy as a debate rages over...

Africa may not be home to the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) – those are in the Middle East and Asia – but...

Sovereign wealth funds, led by Norway’s $810bn oil fund, are using Hong Kong’s listings revival to achieve a long-held goal...

For all the dealmaking hype, cable television remains a consumer product. Remember that as the industry’s latest round of...

China’s first bad loan manager to float on a stock exchange is expected to buy up to Rmb100bn in fresh distressed debts over...

Gaw Capital Partners, a Hong Kong private equity property company, has bought the London headquarters of retailer Marks and...

A year ago this month, Sunny Verghese, chief executive of Olam, faced the biggest crisis in the Asian agribusiness group’s...

State-backed investors from Singapore and Malaysia have driven the value of cross-border acquisitions in Europe and the...

Alabama in London? Singapore? Taipei? Jefferson County, home of what was (before Detroit’s wheels came off) the biggest...

Abu Dhabi and Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds will join developer Related Companies to acquire the Manhattan headquarters...

Goldman Sachs is betting that the hedge fund industry can attract more investors despite its recent performance record – by...

Norway’s $800bn oil fund would undergo its biggest organisational change in a decade under proposals from a...

China Investment Corporation is closing in on an acquisition of one of London’s largest office developments in what would be...

One of China’s leading financiers is poised to make the first investment from his new private equity fund, betting that...

Hong Kong’s de facto central bank is moving into London’s swanky Mayfair district, better known for hedge funds and Arab oil...

The Tamar deepwater natural gas platform rises 290m from the seabed off Ashdod, in southern Israel, emerging above the...

Singapore’s two main government-linked investors, Temasek and GIC Private, have quietly ramped up their activity in Europe...

Goldman Sachs is launching a $250m “social impact” fund whose returns are linked to the success of projects such as...

As the UK resurrects plans to market the western world’s first Islamic government bond, it will be keen to avoid the fate of...

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has quietly built a stake worth about $1bn in Bank of America, the country’s second-biggest...

Alrosa, the Russian diamond monopoly, has raised $1.3bn in a Moscow public offering as the Russian government pushes forward...

Qatar’s $100bn sovereign wealth fund has sought to soften its image as an aggressive acquirer of trophy assets by putting...

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is aiming to ramp up hugely its property investments as it seeks to increase its...

Since the days of Marco Polo, China has been stuck with the label of the world’s largest untapped market. While the success...

When Suppiah Dhanabalan retired this year after 17 years as chairman of Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund,...

Heathrow airport and its shareholders are licking their wounds after failing to persuade the aviation regulator to permit an...

There are so many irritating things about the UK property market that it is hard to know where to start with the...

Assets under management at BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager, have risen above $4tn, amid a continuing flow of...

London Business School has signed a deal with China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe), one of the world’s...