The author of this short primer, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, is founder & chief executive of the World Pensions conference and chair of the G20 Pensions Roundtable held on the sidelines of the G20 Summit

In the days leading up to the publication of ‘The New Wealth of Nations’ report (9 Sept. 2024), Nic Firzli and the Hon. Nick Sherry, Australia’s first Minister for Superannuation, co-founder of the G20 Pensions Roundtable, will talk to policy makers, trade union leaders and financial journalists across Europe, Asia and the Americas, highlighting and sharing short sneak previews of the report itself

Today (data as of end July published 20 Aug. 2024), the combined investments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) and other smaller, non-consolidated pension reserve assets broke the $1 trillion mark for the first time in history, propelling the kingdom in the select pension and SWF “top 7” club alongside Canada, Australia, Singapore and the United States etc. (see simplified data chart below)

Learn more about public pension and SWF investment in tech, sustainable finance, equity, venture capital and infrastructure assets: join the world’s leading experts in the field “from Canberra to Cambridge” at the City of London Forum 21–22 October 2024, a multi-stakeholder event co-chaired by the author of this primer

The Future of Finance: CityEvent.org