Here now, the news: 

• Cyprus asks the IMF for help in designing a new SWF for looming gas revenues.
• The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan has had many of its investment restrictions removed. Today, it can invest in real estate, gold, lira, rubles, junk, and plenty more...
• The Investment Corporation of Dubai has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung Life to build a life insurance bus in the GCC and beyond.
• Institutional investors' appetite for venture capital may be growing.
• What are the KIC, NPS and Korea Post up to these days? Read on.
• Nigeria's new SWF will finally get a management team in the next couple of weeks.
• Brian Gibson – one of the gurus of 'relationship investing' -- is leaving AIMCo.