UAO Insider: Al-Rumayyan just drew a line in Europe.

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Issue 4 · Saturday, 20 Jun 2026 · 12-min read

Week in Numbers

$925bn

PIF assets under management

EUR10.4bn

PIF European pipeline to 2030

6.5%

PSP fiscal 2026 net return

A$410bn

AustralianSuper AUM, Delaney's last day

People Moves

Person	Organisation	Move
Mark Delaney Departure	AustralianSuper	Today — final day as CIO and Deputy CEO. Grew the fund from A$20bn to A$410bn over 25 years. Shaun Manuell takes the CIO seat from 1 July 2026.
Edwin Velzel Departure	PGGM	Departing end of 2026 from CEO, PGGM (since Nov 2017; previously CEO of APG).
Paula Potter New Hire	Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees' Pension Plan	Appointed CEO (from 1 July 2026). Previously COO, SHEPP (22 years with the plan).
Anthony Tang New Hire	TTC Pension Plan	Portfolio Manager, Public Markets (~C$8bn AUM). From Mercer Canada; earlier Ontario Teachers'.

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On the Circuit

Al-Rumayyan at FII Priority Europe (Rome, 17–19 Jun)

PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan told the FII Institute’s Priority Europe summit that EU regulation is “really hurting investors” and that PIF is “thinking seriously about the ability to sustain” its European investments. He simultaneously announced EUR10.4bn in investment opportunities through 2030.

Mandates & Money

PSP Investments — Fiscal 2026 Results

Net return of 6.5% for fiscal 2026. Net assets grew to C$320.6bn. 10-year annualized net return of 9.0%, outperforming the reference portfolio benchmark by 1.1%. Alternatives (infrastructure, private equity, real estate) remain the core return driver.

Danantara — 30-Year Bond

Indonesia’s new sovereign wealth fund is mulling a 30-year bond issuance just days after its debut sale. The fund, which consolidated state-owned enterprise assets under one vehicle, is moving fast to establish its capital markets presence.

Mubadala — Greenlink Acquisition

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala has acquired a EUR200m stake in the Greenlink subsea electricity interconnector between Britain and Ireland. The deal is a direct play on European energy security infrastructure.

Virginia Retirement System

VRS committed over $1bn to private markets in Q1 2026, with allocations across private equity, private credit, and real assets. The fund manages $115bn for 800,000+ beneficiaries.

Name to Know

Mark Delaney

Outgoing CIO & Deputy CEO, AustralianSuper

In 25 years as CIO, Delaney grew AustralianSuper from A$20bn to A$410bn — one of the most significant accumulations of pension capital in the Asia-Pacific region. His model of in-housing investment management and building direct deal capability became a blueprint for large-fund governance globally. He leaves the fund on a 6.5% one-year and 8.85% ten-year annualised return basis.

From the Desk This Week

UAO Daily Brief · Saturday 20 June

The Strait reopened on paper · the Gulf's $80 problem · the owners keep buying

Brent steadied near $80 while Hormuz transits sit at a tenth of normal. The gap between the priced reopening and the physical one is this week's signal. One chart.

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The Probability Desk · Friday 19 June

Lebanon Breaks the Nuclear Calendar — Does It Open the Warsh Hike Window?

US-Iran nuclear talks postponed after Lebanon flared. Brent bounced to $80. Warsh's first FOMC flipped the median dot from cut to hike signal. The desk runs the probabilities.

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This Week’s Executive Profile

Yasir Al-Rumayyan

Governor, Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia · Chairman, Saudi Aramco

Photo: FII Institute / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

The Architect of Capital

After completing an accounting degree at King Faisal University, Al-Rumayyan joined Saudi Hollandi Bank — the joint venture between ABN AMRO and Saudi private capital. He learned the mechanics of cross-border investment operations. Then came the Capital Market Authority, where he joined as part of the founding team tasked with building Saudi Arabia’s regulated financial markets from the ground up.

The Public Investment Fund that Al-Rumayyan inherited in 2015 was a domestic holding company: $150bn in assets. In April 2016, Mohammed bin Salman unveiled Vision 2030. At the centre of its financial architecture: the PIF. Under Al-Rumayyan, the fund moved at extraordinary velocity — a $45bn commitment to SoftBank’s Vision Fund, then Uber, then Lucid, then Nintendo, EA, Take-Two.

In 2019, Al-Rumayyan became Chairman of Saudi Aramco. In December of that year, Aramco listed on the Tadawul. The IPO raised $25.6bn. Market capitalisation briefly exceeded $2tn — the largest company in the world.

On June 17, 2026, standing before ministers and investors at the Waldorf Astoria in Rome, Al-Rumayyan did not speak as a supplicant seeking European market access. He spoke as a creditor — conditioning EUR10.4bn on regulatory reform. That is a different kind of power.

PIF Assets Under Management Growth 2015-2026

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