Mubadala Signals Strength After Spending $39 Billion in 2025

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg

Mubadala Investment Co. emerged as one of the biggest backers of global deals last year with a $39 billion outlay, and said it remains well positioned to weather the economic fallout from the Iran warBloomberg Terminal.

“We are confident we will emerge from these challenging times stronger than before,” Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, managing director and group chief executive officer of the Abu Dhabi wealth fund, said in a statement. The fund, one of the emirate’s three sovereign investors, said assets under management rose 17% to 1.4 trillion dirhams ($385 billion), with five- and ten-year annualized returns exceeding 10%.