{"id":604720,"date":"2026-04-13T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:39:13","slug":"war-or-peace-gulf-wealth-funds-keep-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604720\/","title":{"rendered":"War or peace, Gulf wealth funds keep investing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gulf sovereign wealth funds maintained their pace of investments in the first quarter, despite nearly a third of the period taking place during the war, according to data by consultancy Global SWF first seen by Semafor, but the outlines of their strategy going forward is far murkier.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala, and Qatar Investment Authority combined for almost $25 billion in new investments in the quarter, a pace that \u2014 without war \u2014 would portend a banner year for the state investors. The resilience, in part, reflects Gulf funds\u2019 extraordinary size: currently $5 trillion across the largest ones in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, a figure that is expected to rise to almost $18 trillion by 2050.<\/p>\n

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But the pace of overseas investment will likely slow if the war drags on, Diego L\u00f3pez, founder and managing director of Global SWF, said. For what comes next, he said strategies deployed during COVID-19 could provide the playbook.<\/p>\n

Some funds \u2014 such as Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Kuwait Investment Authority \u2014 may be used to support government budgets and slow investments in private markets, L\u00f3pez said. Others could shore up industries affected by the war, such as aviation, and provide financing for domestic military companies like EDGE in the UAE, SAMI and SAFE in Saudi, and Barzan in Qatar, he said. Both strategies would reduce the capital available for investments abroad and to drive domestic economic diversification plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulf sovereign wealth funds maintained their pace of investments in the first quarter, despite nearly a third of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-604720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}