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The Sovereign Grant costs about £1.29 per UK citizen, said the Royal Household, but the taxpayer foots many other bills.
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Neom’s UK hydrogen export ambitions face setback
A planned UK facility seen as critical to the world’s largest green hydrogen project, the $8.4 billion development at Saudi Arabia’s Neom, has been put on hold, raising questions over how the fuel ...
A legendary investor known for contrarian bets says the best against-the-grain trade available at the moment would be to buy Chinese stocks.
Today, 61% of countries have an “endangered” level of tax sovereignty or worse — meaning they are failing to collect tax ...
It was possibly the biggest upset of the tournament and precisely the type of statement Saudi Arabia wanted to make ahead of ...
President William Lai (賴清德) yesterday announced plans to set up a sovereign wealth fund for foreign investment “to connect with the world.” “The government will set up a sovereign wealth fund to build ...
The U.K. government is clearing the way for certain state-owned investment funds — such as sovereign wealth funds or pension funds — to take up to a 15% stake in national newspapers and news ...
The ten-year weighted average returns on sovereign wealth funds from 2012 to 2022 was ~6.7 percent, leaving a meager ~270 basis point spread between the United States’ cost of capital and a new ...
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund with $1.7 trillion in assets, has reported a loss of about $40 billion in the first quarter of 2025.
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)—is buying a 25% stake in London’s buzzy Covent Garden worth £570 million ($739 million). NBIM ...
In 2024, the United Kingdom created a national wealth fund capitalized at about $35 billion to advance the country’s industrial strategy. If early SWFs were financed by commodity wealth, almost half ...
Donald Trump wants the US to establish a sovereign wealth fund – and no wonder. Norway’s, one of the biggest and best known in the world, aims to “safeguard and build financial wealth for future ...