While low oil prices have forced the drawdown of assets, Saudi Arabia plans to create a new sovereign fund to manage part of its oil wealth and diversify its investments. The new fund might behave like a private equity fund

African nations, stung by plunging commodity prices, should set up more sovereign wealth funds to help withstand the next downturn, said Akinwumi Adesina, the African Development Bank’s new president. The funds “...

We suggest in this paper that the risk-adjusted rate of return on German savings could be improved by creating a sovereign wealth fund for Germany (designated DESWF), which couldinvest excess German savings globally. Creation of ...

Sovereign wealth funds are ramping up their hedge fund allocations, but successfully navigating the manager selection process requires more than good investment performance.

Sovereign wealth funds wield a staggering amount of financial influence. Indeed, according to atleast one report, the total aggregate amount of assets under management by state-owned investment funds is approximately $4.8 trillio...

Sovereign wealth funds emerged as early as the 1950s, and expanded in number in the 1970s especially in oil-producing emirates, such as Abu Dhabi, as a way to accumulate current account and budget surpluses during the oil boom. No...

General levels of interest in the activities and motivations of ‘‘sovereign wealth funds’’ (‘‘SWFs’’)have waxed and waned over the last several years, with interest being more acute ...