Company Insights Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Banking & Finance Abu Dhabi Investment Authority News Opinion Finance Home is where the heart is for GCC wealth funds The Gulf's SWFs are stepping up domestic investment September 5, 2024 Infrastructure Adia part of fund aiming to raise $4bn for India upgrade The National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) in India, which is backed by Abu Dhabi, is aiming to raise $4 billion, according to reports. The fund, which counts the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), the Indian government, AustralianSuper and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings among its investors, is raising the money in the early part of next […] September 5, 2024 Analysis Banking & Finance Instability in India’s Gift City could push investors to UAE India’s Gift City – a special economic zone located in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat home state – has attracted commitments from backers including sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf. However a halt in approvals to set up family offices has put the brakes on its ambitions to become a global financial hub after regulators […] August 27, 2024 Banking & Finance ADIA ‘in talks to join Sanofi bid consortium’ Abu Dhabi’s trillion-dollar investment fund is in talks to join a consortium to buy the French drugmaker Sanofi’s consumer health division, according to a report by Bloomberg. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC have both been contacted by the French buyout firm PAI Partners with a view to joining […] August 23, 2024 Analysis Telecoms Analysts question possible Adia bid for India telecoms group Abu Dhabi’s top sovereign wealth fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), is among the preferred bidders for a minority stake in Vodafone Idea, a struggling Indian telecom company. However, analysts are warning that the deal makes little commercial or financial sense. Vodafone Idea is India’s third largest mobile operator, but has lost about 210 million […] August 20, 2024 Finance Abu Dhabi’s ADQ buys minority stake in Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ and Patrick Drahi, majority owner of auction house Sotheby’s, will jointly invest $1 billion in the company to support its expansion plans. As part of the agreement, ADQ will acquire a minority stake in Sotheby’s, a British-founded company that has its headquarters in New York. The value of the sovereign […] August 12, 2024 Finance Adia consortium in $6.9bn deal for UK trading platform A consortium including Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign wealth fund has agreed a deal to buy UK stock trading platform Hargreaves Lansdown for £5.4 billion ($6.9 billion), the London-listed company said on Friday. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia) subsidiary Platinum Ivy and private equity firms CVC and Nordic Capital will buy all Hargreaves Lansdown shares, which […] August 9, 2024 Economy Partnerships prove central as ADIA looks to India and beyond Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the UAE’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is increasingly forming consortiums to make its deals – and focusing on purchases in India. After a string of acquisitions in Asia, ADIA is now leading a consortium with CVC Advisers with a view to bidding for UK investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown. In June the […] August 7, 2024 Finance US forms bulk of growing Mena M&A activity Middle East and North Africa merger and acquisition deals over the first half of this year were focused in the US. In the opening six months of 2024, 321 deals worth $49 billion were completed in the Mena region, a 1 percent year-on-year increase in volume and 12 percent rise in value, the EY Mena […] July 31, 2024 Finance UAE and Qatari funds buy into India’s Adani $1bn share sale Sovereign wealth funds from the UAE and Qatar have invested in Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s first share sale following US short-seller Hindenburg Research’s alleged fraud report last year. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Qatar Investment Authority have invested in Adani Energy Solutions’ qualified institutional placement, which raised up to $1 billion, Reuters reported citing informed sources. […] July 31, 2024 Posts navigation Previous 1 … 5 6 7 … 14 Next
Opinion Finance Home is where the heart is for GCC wealth funds The Gulf's SWFs are stepping up domestic investment September 5, 2024
Infrastructure Adia part of fund aiming to raise $4bn for India upgrade The National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) in India, which is backed by Abu Dhabi, is aiming to raise $4 billion, according to reports. The fund, which counts the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), the Indian government, AustralianSuper and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings among its investors, is raising the money in the early part of next […] September 5, 2024
Analysis Banking & Finance Instability in India’s Gift City could push investors to UAE India’s Gift City – a special economic zone located in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat home state – has attracted commitments from backers including sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf. However a halt in approvals to set up family offices has put the brakes on its ambitions to become a global financial hub after regulators […] August 27, 2024
Banking & Finance ADIA ‘in talks to join Sanofi bid consortium’ Abu Dhabi’s trillion-dollar investment fund is in talks to join a consortium to buy the French drugmaker Sanofi’s consumer health division, according to a report by Bloomberg. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC have both been contacted by the French buyout firm PAI Partners with a view to joining […] August 23, 2024
Analysis Telecoms Analysts question possible Adia bid for India telecoms group Abu Dhabi’s top sovereign wealth fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), is among the preferred bidders for a minority stake in Vodafone Idea, a struggling Indian telecom company. However, analysts are warning that the deal makes little commercial or financial sense. Vodafone Idea is India’s third largest mobile operator, but has lost about 210 million […] August 20, 2024
Finance Abu Dhabi’s ADQ buys minority stake in Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ and Patrick Drahi, majority owner of auction house Sotheby’s, will jointly invest $1 billion in the company to support its expansion plans. As part of the agreement, ADQ will acquire a minority stake in Sotheby’s, a British-founded company that has its headquarters in New York. The value of the sovereign […] August 12, 2024
Finance Adia consortium in $6.9bn deal for UK trading platform A consortium including Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign wealth fund has agreed a deal to buy UK stock trading platform Hargreaves Lansdown for £5.4 billion ($6.9 billion), the London-listed company said on Friday. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia) subsidiary Platinum Ivy and private equity firms CVC and Nordic Capital will buy all Hargreaves Lansdown shares, which […] August 9, 2024
Economy Partnerships prove central as ADIA looks to India and beyond Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the UAE’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is increasingly forming consortiums to make its deals – and focusing on purchases in India. After a string of acquisitions in Asia, ADIA is now leading a consortium with CVC Advisers with a view to bidding for UK investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown. In June the […] August 7, 2024
Finance US forms bulk of growing Mena M&A activity Middle East and North Africa merger and acquisition deals over the first half of this year were focused in the US. In the opening six months of 2024, 321 deals worth $49 billion were completed in the Mena region, a 1 percent year-on-year increase in volume and 12 percent rise in value, the EY Mena […] July 31, 2024
Finance UAE and Qatari funds buy into India’s Adani $1bn share sale Sovereign wealth funds from the UAE and Qatar have invested in Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s first share sale following US short-seller Hindenburg Research’s alleged fraud report last year. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Qatar Investment Authority have invested in Adani Energy Solutions’ qualified institutional placement, which raised up to $1 billion, Reuters reported citing informed sources. […] July 31, 2024
