With the emergence of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) around the world managing equity of
over $8 trillion, their impact on the corporate landscape and social welfare is being …

A spectre is stalking the world's governments, businesses and press: it is a spectre of a
special type of fund, one that buys strategic resources around the world, hollows out …

This paper claims that investors dislike political uncertainty about future policies and value
stability in the political environment. We test the validity of this hypothesis by first studying …

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The aim of this chapter is to analyze certain fundamental characteristics of sovereign wealth
funds (SWFs) to contribute to a better understanding of these investment vehicles. SWFs …

In recent years sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have become increasingly important as
institutional investors, both in numerical terms and in terms of assets under management …

Over the past five years, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have become a prominent
phenomenon in contemporary capitalism. Described as government investment vehicles …

In recent years, largely as a result of globalisation, states have been building up substantial
portfolios of assets in other countries. Most of these holdings have been of bonds and …

The rise, in the last decade, of government-owned investment vehicles–Sovereign Wealth
Funds (SWFs) has provoked concern in several economies where these entities invest …

This chapter is about assets held by governments in the form of sovereign funds managed
for public benefits, which is a form of wealth held and managed by the government or its …