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State-owned investment vehicles that deploy national reserves, resource revenue or government-held assets in domestic and foreign markets.
Danantara plans to invest $5 billion in Indonesian businesses over six to nine months, its chief investment officer told Fortune. At $556 million to $833 million a month, the money lands against an index that fell 11.6% after MSCI proposed a downgrade.
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Activate Capital will open its first non-US office in Doha after Qatar Investment Authority became a limited partner in the firm. It is the 13th manager in QIA's $3 billion Fund of Funds, about 0.5% of the $580 billion fund.
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Budget minister Park Hong-keun cited Norway to defend Korea's steady bond issuance as a chip boom helps push tax revenue 63.2 trillion won above forecast. Opposition lawmakers want the surplus used to borrow less, and the ministry says it has yet to decide between deeper issuance cuts and another fund.
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Temasek's investment chief Rohit Sipahimalani ranks AI spending that fails to pay off as a top risk for next year, yet the fund aims to hold 15% in AI by 2031. Because that goal is a portfolio share, a fall in AI valuations would raise how much Temasek must buy to reach it.
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Temasek CEO Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegaran defended a unit's S$6.6 billion data centre sale, saying further investment would have raised its costs. The worry he gave is whether AI infrastructure spending lifts borrowing costs for the Temasek companies that need credit to adopt the technology.
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Ceer, the EV maker majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, showed two premium cars that compete with Lucid, in which the fund holds about 58%. For a Saudi fleet weighing the two PIF-backed brands, any comparison has to wait until Ceer publishes prices.
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Qatar's sovereign fund co-led Gatik's $200 million Series D after backing a satellite firm and a chip metrology maker in June. The revenue line that did not move is the one to read.
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Norges Bank wants government bonds cut from 70 percent to 50 percent of its bond benchmark, roughly $80 billion of Treasuries by one estimate, and the buyer stepping in behind it holds paper for a spread it can close in a quarter.
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Gulf space money is moving off government budget lines and onto corporate balance sheets, where Space42's venture with Viasat now sits. KPMG's projection to 2034 is for slower growth than the decade behind it.
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The Qatar Investment Authority's new partnership with JPMorgan's asset management arm begins with a $15 billion public equities mandate, announced in the same week Qatar's Emir told the UN that the Gulf is in one of its most dangerous phases.
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Lee Hyoung-il used his first day as finance minister to commit to a Korea Investment Corporation account that buys shares in chipmakers and AI firms, and the ministry has told parliament about 1 trillion won is available for it next year.
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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told an audience in New York that roughly $20 billion of annual revenue is at risk and that Ras Laffan is producing 17% less, and he announced a $60 billion domestic pipeline.
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A dedicated entity would run local assets including a stake in Qatar National Bank that Crypto Briefing values near $50 billion, copying the Abu Dhabi structure where Mubadala and ADQ carry different mandates.
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Paramount says the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will take its indirect foreign ownership to 49.5 percent. The FCC approved that. The purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery still waits on a March antitrust trial.
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Indonesia's Danantara values its holdings at about $1 trillion, roughly the size of Saudi Arabia's PIF. Its investment chief wants the managers who take that money to train his staff and improve Indonesia's stock market.
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