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Profiteering fears as global investment firms increase stakes in England’s child social care

Observer investigation finds homes backed by private equity more than doubled in five years, with Qatar and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds among investors

Published: 23 Dec 2023

Severn Trent customer water bills to rise by almost 37% by end of decade

Firm raises £1bn in investment – half from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund – to improve network over five years

Published: 29 Sep 2023

Observer business profile ‘If artificial intelligence creates better art, what’s wrong with that?’ Top Norwegian investor and art collector Nicolai Tangen

The head investor of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country’s portfolio than his own collection of paintings

Published: 27 Jun 2023

World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund threatens to vote against boards on firms it holds investments with over lax climate and social targets

Published: 3 Feb 2023

King Charles grants us a windfall from wind: now it is crucial we question ownership of the seabed

Molly Scott Cato

A monarchy ‘gift’ to the Treasury should not detract from the anachronistic convention of crown estate rights over land and sea

Published: 19 Jan 2023

Who might have the money to buy Manchester United?

Oligarchs and fans are an unlikely bet but UK and overseas billionaires and sovereign wealth funds are in running to meet £3.7bn price tag

Published: 23 Nov 2022

Explainer: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund will control the Premier League club and can spend big in the transfer market

Published: 7 Oct 2021

The foreign royals and billionaire tax exiles collecting UK's furlough millions

Read the list of super-rich claimants, from Saudi princes to Dubai monarchs, tax exiles to the UK’s richest

Published: 19 Mar 2021

Queen's property manager banks huge windfarm bonanza

Offshore seabed auction lands £4bn over 10 years for Treasury and Crown Estate prompting calls for green sovereign wealth fund

Published: 5 Feb 2021

Norway's sovereign wealth fund gains more than £90bn during 2020

Central bank stimulus pushes up value of shares, taking fund to £923bn – equal to £170,000 for each Norwegian

Published: 28 Jan 2021

'World-first' legal case: student accuses Australia of misleading investors on climate risk

Published: 22 Jul 2020

Claim Amanda Staveley in charge of Abu Dhabi Barclays deal 'a fantasy', court told

Published: 15 Jul 2020

Viewpoint column Low interest rates offer a rare solution that left and right can agree on

Larry Elliott

Governments can opt to repeat the failure of austerity or take the opportunity to invest in the future

Published: 21 Jun 2020

Norwegian wealth fund blacklists G4S shares over human rights concerns

Sovereign wealth fund cites risk of company contributing to ill-treatment of migrant labour in Qatar and UAE

Published: 14 Nov 2019

World's biggest sovereign wealth fund to ditch fossil fuels

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global gets go ahead to divest $13bn of investments

Published: 12 Jun 2019

‘Historic breakthrough’: Norway’s giant oil fund dives into renewables

Experts say even nations that got rich on fossil fuels are seeing the future is green

Published: 5 Apr 2019

Nils Pratley on finance Aston Martin share crash shows valuing a dream takes adjustment

Buyers at float have been reminded why you shouldn’t buy if private equity is selling

Published: 28 Feb 2019

Norway's $1tn wealth fund urged to keep oil and gas investments

Government advisers reject central bank’s proposal to sell billions held in oil stocks

Published: 24 Aug 2018

Project Syndicate economists How economies could insure themselves against the bad times

Robert Shiller

Issuing GDP-linked bonds is akin to buying insurance against economic distress

Published: 19 Mar 2018

Billion-dollar debts control the future of tech industry

Evgeny Morozov

Giant global funds, such as SoftBank in Japan, are borrowing huge amounts to swallow up Europe’s robotic and AI firms

Published: 10 Mar 2018