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PIF
3 articles tagged "PIF".
The SAR 3.4 trillion story — how the kingdom stopped receiving capital and started directing it
PIF assets quintupled from SAR 720B in 2017 to SAR 3.41T in 2025. Non-oil exports tripled. FDI inflows quintupled. Regional HQs grew from 44 to 700+. The numbers describe a structural shift in how the Saudi economy interacts with global capital.
SAR 3.41T· PIF: from sovereign fund to sector builder
The Saudi sports ledger: how a kingdom became the most-discussed sports investor on earth
F1 in Jeddah. LIV Golf. Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar in the Saudi Pro League. The 2034 World Cup. The 2029 Asian Winter Games at Trojena. The Esports World Cup. Few national rebrandings have happened as visibly or as fast — and both the real economic activity and the contested international debate belong on the same ledger.
89M+· An entertainment industry, built from zero
The Tadawul decade
Between 2015 and 2026, the Saudi Exchange went from a closed national bourse with marginal international weight to the largest emerging-markets equity destination outside the BRIC economies. MSCI EM inclusion, the Aramco IPO, the post-Aramco listing wave, and the PIF anchor-investor model rebuilt Saudi capital markets in a decade.
SAR 133B· Global capital coming to Saudi