🌍 Sovereign Wealth Fund Holdings Tracker — Norway GPFG, Saudi PIF, ADIA, GIC, Temasek, CIC, KIA, QIA

The world's largest pools of state-owned capital are the smartest money you've never read about. This actor returns a curated, ranked-by-AUM database of every major Sovereign Wealth Fund — the trillion-dollar Norway oil-revenue giant (GPFG), the Vision-2030 mega-fund Saudi PIF (Newcastle United / LIV Golf / Lucid Motors), the secretive Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Singapore's GIC and Temasek, the China Investment Corporation, Kuwait's KIA (the oldest SWF on Earth, est. 1953), Qatar's QIA (Volkswagen / Glencore / Harrods), Mubadala, ICD, the Australian Future Fund, NZ Super, and 20+ more. AUM, asset allocation, top public-equity holdings, recent strategic actions, governance type, transparency score, and SEC 13F linkage for the SWFs that file one. Bloomberg Sovereign Wealth Center / Global SWF Premium / SWF Institute Pro alternative at pay-per-record pricing.

When a $1.74 trillion sovereign wealth fund decides to vote against a Tesla CEO pay package — that's a Reuters story for a week. When the Saudi PIF buys Newcastle United, anchors a $1B Reliance Retail round, takes Lucid Motors to a majority stake, and quietly accumulates 8% of Nintendo — that's a multi-month macro narrative that drives currency flows, M&A deal flow, and political negotiations. When the Norway GPFG divests from a coal-mining sector — every ESG-aware allocator in Europe rebalances within a quarter. Sovereign Wealth Funds are the smart-money tier above hedge funds: their average holding period is decades, their AUM dwarfs every hedge-fund family combined, their political ties make them strategic actors, and their movements signal the direction of entire economies.

But the data is scattered, anti-bot, or paywalled. SWF Institute Pro charges thousands per seat. Global SWF Premium runs $5K–$30K per analyst seat. Bloomberg's Sovereign Wealth Center sits behind a $24K+ Terminal subscription. The free-tier sources (each fund's annual report) require visiting 20+ websites in 15 languages and parsing PDFs with no standardized schema.

This actor solves that problem. We've curated the universe — pulling AUM, allocation, top holdings, recent actions, governance, and transparency scores from every fund's audited transparency report, from SEC Form 13F filings for the funds that file them (Norway GPFG, GIC, Temasek, Saudi PIF, Mubadala, Alaska Permanent Fund all file 13Fs for their US holdings), and from the IFSWF Santiago Principles self-assessments. The result: a single, standardized, schema-clean dataset that returns the top-AUM SWFs of the world in one API call.

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What's An SWF, And Why Should A Macro Allocator Care?

A Sovereign Wealth Fund is a state-owned investment vehicle that manages a national surplus — typically commodity-export revenues (oil, gas, copper, diamonds), foreign-exchange reserves, or pension pre-funding contributions. The combined AUM of the global SWF universe exceeds $11 trillion, larger than every hedge fund + private-equity firm in the world combined. The top 10 SWFs alone hold over $7.5 trillion.

Why macro funds care:

• Currency flows. Norway GPFG holds 71% in foreign equities — every quarter they buy or sell ~$50B of NOK-funded foreign assets. That's the second-largest FX flow on Earth after the Fed's balance sheet.
• Allocation signals. When ADIA shifts from 25% to 41% alternatives, the entire private-credit and infrastructure space repricies.
• IPO anchor demand. PIF / GIC / Temasek / QIA anchor 50%+ of all $1B+ EM IPOs. Their participation determines deal viability.
• Geopolitical signals. Russia NWF drawdowns track war-financing needs. PIF expansions track Vision-2030 timetable. CIC pullbacks track US-China review tensions.

Why LP-side allocators (pension funds, endowments, family offices) care:

• Top SWFs are co-investors. Knowing what Norway / GIC / Mubadala / KIA back is the surest pre-due-diligence signal — they have hundred-person teams of PhDs vetting every GP.
• Asset-allocation benchmarking. The "average SWF allocation" (47% equities / 18% fixed income / 8% real estate / 25% alternatives / 2% cash, weighted by AUM) is the institutional north-star.
• Governance comp. Independent vs Government-Controlled — this dictates everything about how a fund is allowed to be approached.

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Output Schema

Each dataset item is one SWF profile:

Field	Type	Example
swf_name	str	Norway GPFG (Norges Bank Investment Management)
country	str	Norway
country_code	str	NO (ISO-3166 alpha-2)
aum_usd_billion	float	1740.0 (latest disclosed)
aum_usd_billion_prior_year	float	1550.0
aum_change_pct	float	12.26 (YoY %)
inception_year	int	1990
governance_type	enum	Independent / Government-Controlled / Hybrid
mandate	str	Oil and gas revenue savings for long-term intergenerational wealth transfer
transparency_score	int	10 (Linaburg-Maduell scaled 1-10)
asset_allocation	obj	{equities: 71.4, fixed_income: 26.8, real_estate: 1.7, alternatives: 0.1, cash: 0.0} (% of AUM)
notable_recent_holdings	list[str]	["Apple","Microsoft","Nvidia",...]
notable_recent_actions	list[str]	["Voted against Tesla CEO pay package 2024", ...]
files_13f	bool	true (does the fund file SEC Form 13F for US holdings?)
sec_cik	str	0001262642 (SEC CIK for cross-reference with our 13F actors)
data_source	str	nbim.no/en — Government Pension Fund Global audited annual report

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Input Filters

Filter	Type	Description
funds	array	Case-insensitive substring match against SWF names. Prefilled with ["Norway GPFG","Saudi PIF","ADIA"]. Leave empty for the full curated universe.
countries	array	Country names or ISO-3166 alpha-2 codes. Combine for "GCC basket" (SA,AE,KW,QA,OM,BH) or "Asian basket" (SG,CN,KR,MY).
min_aum_usd_billion	int	Filter to SWFs above this AUM. 100 = mega-fund tier (12 SWFs), 500 = top whales (8 SWFs), 1000 = trillion-dollar tier (3 SWFs).
governance_type	enum	Independent (NBIM, Future Fund, NZ Super, ISIF, NSIA, APFC, Chile ESSF, KIA) or Government-Controlled (PIF, CIC, ADIA, QIA, Mubadala, Temasek, GIC).
limit	int (1–100)	Max records to return. Default 25 (covers entire useful universe). Smoke test 10.

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Curated SWF Universe

The actor's curated database includes (ranked by AUM): Norway GPFG, China Investment Corporation (CIC), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), GIC (Singapore), Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA Investment Portfolio), Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), Mubadala Investment Company (UAE), Temasek Holdings (Singapore), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), Australian Future Fund, National Wealth Fund (Russia), National Development Fund of Iran (NDF), Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Libya Investment Authority (LIA), Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), Kazakhstan Samruk-Kazyna, Oman Investment Authority (OIA), New Zealand Superannuation Fund, Turkey Wealth Fund (TVF), Khazanah Nasional (Malaysia), Mumtalakat Holding (Bahrain), Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), Chile Economic and Social Stabilization Fund (ESSF), Botswana Pula Fund, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), and others.

Every entry above $3B AUM. Total cumulative covered AUM: ~$10 trillion — covers >90% of the global SWF universe by AUM.

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Use Cases

1. Macro Hedge Funds — Currency and Flow Signals

Pull min_aum_usd_billion: 500 quarterly. Watch the AUM change column. A 10% YoY contraction in Russia NWF or Iran NDF signals war/sanctions financing needs. A 15% YoY expansion in PIF signals Vision-2030 capital deployment timeline acceleration. Build a "SWF flow index" by summing AUM-weighted asset-allocation deltas — leads commodity-currency moves by 6-12 months.

2. LP-Side Allocators (Pension Funds, Endowments, Family Offices)

Watch what the institutional smart-money tier is co-investing in. The notable_recent_actions field surfaces: PIF's Reliance Retail / Newcastle / Lucid / Activision moves, Mubadala's Fortress acquisition, GIC's India IPO anchoring, KIA's UK infrastructure JV with Brookfield. These are pre-screened opportunities — a SWF allocation team's 100-person research vet is the strongest possible warm signal.

3. M&A and IPO Advisors

SWF participation is a deal-viability signal. EM mega-IPOs ($1B+) close 87% of the time when a top-5 SWF anchors; 41% otherwise. Pull the notable_recent_actions field to track recent anchor commitments and infer upcoming deal pipelines.

4. Geopolitical Research and Defense-Intelligence Analysts

SWF behavior tracks geopolitical stance. CIC's pullback from US tech = US-China review tension proxy. PIF's expansion = Saudi normalization. Russia NWF drawdowns = sanctions impact. Iran NDF reallocations = sanctions evasion. Pair this actor's governance_type + aum_change_pct + notable_recent_actions to build a state-level capital-allocation intelligence feed.

5. ESG and Climate Researchers

Norway GPFG, Australian Future Fund, NZ Super, ISIF, Chile ESSF all publish detailed ESG mandates. Track their divestment and re-allocation patterns. Norway's 2020 thermal-coal divestment list became the global ESG benchmark — every subsequent SWF rebalanced within four quarters.

6. Academic and Public-Policy Researchers

The transparency_score field tracks Santiago Principles compliance and Linaburg-Maduell adherence. Combined with governance_type and inception_year, it supports comparative-governance research on state-owned investment vehicles.

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Comparison vs Global SWF Premium / SWF Institute Pro / Bloomberg Sovereign Wealth Center / Sovereign Wealth Center (Institutional Investor)

Capability	This Actor	Global SWF Premium	SWF Institute Pro	Bloomberg Terminal SWC	Sovereign Wealth Center (II)
SWF coverage (count)	29 curated	~200 entities incl. PPFs	~100 SWFs	~120 SWFs	~80 SWFs
AUM + prior-year + YoY %	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Asset allocation breakdown	✅	✅	⚠ partial	✅	⚠ partial
Top public-equity holdings	✅	⚠ partial (paywall)	⚠ paywall	✅	⚠ partial
Notable recent actions	✅	✅ (news firehose)	⚠ stub	✅ (BN newsfeed)	✅ (II editorial)
Governance type	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Transparency score (Linaburg-Maduell)	✅	✅	✅	⚠ Bloomberg proprietary	✅
SEC CIK linkage for 13F cross-ref	✅	❌	❌	⚠ Bloomberg-internal	❌
API access	✅ Apify	✅ ($5K-$30K/year)	✅ ($3K-$15K/year)	✅ ($24K+/year Terminal)	❌ web-only
Anti-bot risk	None (curated)	n/a	High (their own anti-bot)	n/a	n/a
Pay-per-record pricing	✅ $0.25/SWF	❌ flat seat	❌ flat seat	❌ flat seat	❌ flat seat
Annual cost @ quarterly pull (29 SWFs × 4)	~$30	$5K–$30K	$3K–$15K	$24K+	~$2K

Bottom line: if you want the curated, standardized, AUM-ranked SWF universe with allocation + holdings + actions in one API call — at the price of a coffee per quarter rather than a $15K seat — this is the cheapest path. Global SWF Premium and SWF Institute Pro are excellent for daily news firehose; Bloomberg's SWC is incomparable for full historical archives if you have a Terminal. We focus on standardized schema + cross-linkable identifiers + pay-per-record economics — perfect for the macro fund or LP that needs to push SWF data into their factor models rather than read it on a webpage.

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Example Output

{
  "swf_name": "Norway GPFG (Norges Bank Investment Management)",
  "country": "Norway",
  "country_code": "NO",
  "aum_usd_billion": 1740.0,
  "aum_usd_billion_prior_year": 1550.0,
  "aum_change_pct": 12.26,
  "inception_year": 1990,
  "governance_type": "Independent",
  "mandate": "Oil and gas revenue savings for long-term intergenerational wealth transfer",
  "transparency_score": 10,
  "asset_allocation": {
    "equities": 71.4, "fixed_income": 26.8,
    "real_estate": 1.7, "alternatives": 0.1, "cash": 0.0
  },
  "notable_recent_holdings": ["Apple","Microsoft","Nvidia","Alphabet","Amazon","Meta Platforms","TSMC","Nestle","Novo Nordisk","ASML"],
  "notable_recent_actions": [
    "Voted against Tesla CEO pay package 2024",
    "Divested from select coal-mining companies under climate policy",
    "Increased renewable-infrastructure allocation to ~$30B target"
  ],
  "files_13f": true,
  "sec_cik": "0001262642",
  "data_source": "nbim.no/en — Government Pension Fund Global audited annual report"
}

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Quickstart

Apify Console

1. Click Start on the actor page.
2. Set limit: 10 to pull the top-10 SWFs by AUM.
3. Optionally set min_aum_usd_billion: 100 to focus on the mega-fund tier.
4. Run. Results appear in seconds (curated — no scraping wait).

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sovereign-wealth-fund-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"limit": 10}'

Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sovereign-wealth-fund-tracker").call(run_input={
    "min_aum_usd_billion": 100,
    "governance_type": "Independent",
    "limit": 20,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['swf_name']}: ${item['aum_usd_billion']}B "
          f"({item['aum_change_pct']:+.2f}% YoY) — {item['governance_type']}")

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Pricing

$0.25 per SWF profile returned, plus $0.01 per actor start.

• Smoke test (10 SWFs): $2.51
• Quarterly mega-fund pull (top 12 SWFs above $100B AUM): $3.01/quarter, ~$12/year
• Full curated universe pull (29 SWFs): $7.26/quarter, ~$30/year

Compare to: Global SWF Premium ($5K-$30K/year), SWF Institute Pro ($3K-$15K/year), Bloomberg SWC ($24K+ Terminal-only), Sovereign Wealth Center by Institutional Investor (~$2K/year). The premium $0.25/record reflects that each profile is hand-curated from 5+ disparate sources (official report, 13F if filed, IFSWF self-assessment, news cross-reference) and standardized into a single schema you can push directly into a factor model or LP dashboard.

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How It Works

Curated data sources combined into one standardized schema:

1. Official SWF transparency reports — for the funds that disclose openly: NBIM (Norway), Temasek, GIC, Future Fund (Australia), APFC (Alaska), NZ Super, ISIF (Ireland), Chile ESSF, KIC (Korea), NSIA (Nigeria), Mubadala, OIA (Oman), Mumtalakat (Bahrain), TVF (Turkey), Samruk-Kazyna (Kazakhstan).
2. SEC Form 13F filings — for the SWFs that file them for their US-listed holdings: Norway GPFG, GIC, Temasek, Saudi PIF, Mubadala, Alaska Permanent Fund. We provide the CIK so you can cross-reference with our SEC Form 13F Holdings Tracker and 13F Holdings Delta Tracker actors.
3. Public annual reviews — for less-disclosed funds where we extract AUM and broad allocation from PDF annual reports: ADIA, CIC, KIA, QIA, ICD, PIF.
4. IFSWF Santiago Principles self-assessments + Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index — scaled to a 1-10 transparency_score.

Anti-bot risk: none. Nothing is scraped at run-time from anti-bot-protected sources (SWF Institute, Global SWF homepage). The curated universe is refreshed quarterly from the official transparency reports above.

Refresh cadence. Quarterly — coordinated with the major SWF reporting cycles (Norway GPFG and Temasek publish semi-annual reports; most others publish annually). When a major fund publishes a new annual review or AUM update, we re-curate. The data_source field tells you exactly which publication each profile sources from.

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FAQ

Q: Why curated rather than scraped? A: The two most comprehensive aggregators (SWF Institute, Global SWF) have aggressive anti-bot. The official SWF transparency pages are scattered across 30 different websites in 15 languages with no standardized schema. Curation by a human analyst, refreshed quarterly, is more reliable, lower-cost, and faster than maintaining 30 site-specific scrapers.

Q: How fresh is the AUM data? A: Within one quarter of each SWF's latest disclosure. Norway GPFG publishes monthly NAV updates (always within a few days of the actor refresh). Most funds publish annually — for those, the actor reflects the latest annual disclosure plus the prior-year figure for YoY change calculation.

Q: Do you have private SWFs / state-owned PE / pension reserve funds? A: This actor focuses on classical SWFs — state-owned, surplus-funded, mandate-driven investment vehicles. We exclude pure-play public-pension funds (CalPERS, CPPIB, GPIF — these are workforce-pension vehicles, not surplus SWFs), state-owned banks, and central-bank reserves. CPPIB and CalPERS are tracked in our 13F Holdings Tracker and 13F Delta Tracker.

Q: What about Russia NWF / sanctioned funds? A: Included for research completeness. Russia NWF and RDIF are sanctioned (US OFAC SDN, EU, UK) but their public disclosure continues via the Russian Ministry of Finance bulletin. Iran NDF, LIA (Libya), and similar disclosure-limited funds are tagged with a low transparency_score and data_source reflecting the limited disclosure.

Q: Can I get a fund's full 13F detail? A: For SWFs with files_13f: true and a populated sec_cik, run our SEC Form 13F Holdings Tracker with the cik field — you'll get every US-listed position the fund holds. For quarterly position deltas (the actionable hedge-fund-style signal), use our 13F Holdings Delta Tracker.

Q: Where can I get SWF holdings on non-US exchanges? A: SWFs often have large positions on EM exchanges that don't disclose institutional holdings. Use our Tadawul Saudi Stock Screener (PIF's home market) and SGX Singapore Stock Screener (Temasek's & GIC's primary market) for the SWF-domestic exchange screens.

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Related Actors — Build A Full Macro-SWF Intelligence Stack

Actor	What It Does
13F Holdings Delta Tracker	Quarter-over-quarter position CHANGES (NEW/INCREASED/DECREASED/EXITED) — pair with the sec_cik field from this actor to track SWF-specific position deltas in real time.
SEC Form 13F Holdings Tracker	Full quarterly 13F positions for SWFs that file (Norway, GIC, Temasek, PIF, Mubadala, APFC). Use with cik field from this actor.
Tadawul Saudi Stock Screener	Saudi Arabia's home equity market — where PIF's domestic concentrated positions sit (Aramco, SABIC, banks).
SGX Singapore Stock Screener	Singapore's SGX — Temasek's home market for DBS, Singtel, Singapore Airlines, AIA, plus GIC's REIT positions.
Finance MCP Server	LLM-ready finance data — give Claude / GPT access to SWF positions, hedge-fund flows, and equity fundamentals.
Treasury Yields & Bonds Tracker	US Treasury yields and global sovereign bond curves — pair with the SWFs' fixed-income allocations (HKMA 73% bonds, Chile ESSF 90%) to track sovereign-on-sovereign flows.

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Disclaimer

This actor returns curated public-disclosure data about Sovereign Wealth Funds. All AUM, allocation, holdings, and action data is sourced from each fund's official transparency reports, SEC 13F filings, IFSWF Santiago Principles self-assessments, and public news. AUM figures are point-in-time and may have moved since publication. Transparency scores are scaled from the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index, a methodology developed by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. This is not investment advice. Sovereign Wealth Funds are state-owned actors subject to political, sanctions, and disclosure-regime changes.

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