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SAIB reports $139 million Q1 net profit

its assets increased by 20.08 percent to $43.65bn.

Nissan forecasts $5.3bn annual net loss

Last year, it announced 9,000 job cuts worldwide.

Saudia to acquire 20 wide-body aircraft

10 of these being acquired for its flydaeal low-cost airline

ADIB’s Q1 net profit $517 million

Q1 2025 net profit before tax increased 18% YoY.

Emirates Islamic Q1 profit $394m

The bank's profit crossed AED 1bn mark for the first time.

Eight biggest GCC sovereign wealth funds

The Arab world's largest sovereign wealth funds.
  • More than $1.3 trillion of funds are managed by some of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the GCC.
  • These funds invest in global real estate, financial assets, bonds and private equities.

How do governments deal with budgetary surpluses or the situations in which they have little or no international debt and it isn’t desirable to hold excess liquidity as money or to spend it immediately?

They invest it in global real estate, private equities, bonds and financial assets through Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs).

The Gulf Cooperation Council region is home to some of the wealthiest economies and individuals. An estimated $1.3 trillion of this wealth is managed by several state-owned sovereign wealth funds.

TRENDS brings to you the eight biggest of these funds in the region.