sovereign wealth fund
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A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), or sovereign investment fund, is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity funds or hedge funds. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally. Most SWFs are funded by revenues from commodity exports or from foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank.
Some sovereign wealth funds may be held by a central bank, which accumulates the funds in the course of its management of a nation's banking system; this type of fund is usually of major economic and fiscal importance. Other sovereign wealth funds are simply the state savings that are invested by various entities for investment return, and that may not have a significant role in fiscal management.
The accumulated funds may have their origin in, or may represent, foreign currency deposits, gold, special drawing rights (SDRs) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserve positions held by central banks and monetary authorities, along with other national assets such as pension investments, oil funds, or other industrial and financial holdings. These are assets of the sovereign nations that are typically held in domestic and different reserve currencies (such as the dollar, euro, pound, and yen). Such investment management entities may be set up as official investment companies, state pension funds, or sovereign funds, among others.
There have been attempts to distinguish funds held by sovereign entities from foreign-exchange reserves held by central banks. Sovereign wealth funds can be characterized as maximizing long-term return, with foreign exchange reserves serving short-term "currency stabilization", and liquidity management. Many central banks in recent years possess reserves massively in excess of needs for liquidity or foreign exchange management. Moreover, it is widely believed most have diversified hugely into assets other than short-term, highly liquid monetary ones, though almost no data is publicly available to back up this assertion.
History
The term "sovereign wealth fund" was first used in 2005 by Andrew Rozanov in an article entitled, "Who holds the wealth of nations?" in the Central Banking Journal.{{cite journal|url=http://www.ssga.com/library/esps/Who_Holds_Wealth_of_Nations_Andrew_Rozanov_8.15.05REVCCRI1145995576.pdf|title=Who holds the wealth of nations?|journal=Central Banking Journal |date=May 2005 |volume=15 |issue=4|access-date=2 September 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080529122341/http://www.ssga.com/library/esps/Who_Holds_Wealth_of_Nations_Andrew_Rozanov_8.15.05REVCCRI1145995576.pdf |archive-date = 29 May 2008}} The previous edition of the journal described the shift from traditional reserve management to sovereign wealth management; subsequently the term gained widespread use as the spending power of global officialdom has rocketed upward.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
China's sovereign wealth funds entered global markets in 2007.{{Rp|page=4}} Since then, their scale and scope have expanded significantly.{{Rp|page=4}}
SWFs were the first institutions to use sovereign capital in an effort to contain the financial damage in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.{{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Zongyuan Zoe |title=Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2023 |isbn=9780674271913 |pages=}}{{Rp|pages=1–2}} SWFs are able to react quickly in such circumstances because unlike regulators, SWFs actively participate in the market.{{Rp|page=2}}
SWFs grew rapidly between 2008 and 2021, with global assets under management by these funds increasing from approximately $4 trillion to more than $10 trillion.{{Rp|page=3}}
SWFs invest in a variety of asset classes such as stocks, bonds, real estate, private equity and hedge funds. Many sovereign funds are directly investing in institutional real estate. According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute's transaction database around US$9.26 billion in direct sovereign wealth fund transactions were recorded in institutional real estate for the last half of 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/11593/sovereign-funds-embrace-direct-real-asset-deals|title=Sovereign Funds Embrace Direct Real Asset Deals|publisher=SWF Institute|date=1 August 2013|access-date=19 April 2019|archive-date=19 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419171452/https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/11593/sovereign-funds-embrace-direct-real-asset-deals|url-status=live}} In the first half of 2014, global sovereign wealth fund direct deals amounted to $50.02 billion according to the SWFI.{{cite web |last=Dunkley |first=Dan |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2014/08/07/sovereign-wealth-funds-pump-near-record-amount-of-cash-in-deals/ |title=Sovereign-Wealth Funds Pump Near Record Amount of Cash in Deals |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=8 August 2014 |date=7 August 2014 |archive-date=5 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605235035/https://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2014/08/07/sovereign-wealth-funds-pump-near-record-amount-of-cash-in-deals/ |url-status=live }}
=Early SWFs=
Sovereign wealth funds have existed for more than a century, but since 2000, the number of sovereign wealth funds has increased dramatically. The first SWFs were non-federal U.S. state funds established in the mid-19th century to fund specific public services.M. Nicolas J. Firzli and Joshua Franzel: [https://www.academia.edu/7789625/Non-Federal_Sovereign_Wealth_Funds_in_the_United_States_and_Canada 'Non-Federal Sovereign Wealth Funds in the United States and Canada', Revue Analyse Financière, Q3 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212111242/http://www.academia.edu/7789625/Non-Federal_Sovereign_Wealth_Funds_in_the_United_States_and_Canada |date=12 February 2017 }} The U.S. state of Texas was thus the first to establish such a scheme, to fund public education. The Permanent School Fund (PSF) was created in 1854 to benefit primary and secondary schools, with the Permanent University Fund (PUF) following in 1876 to benefit universities. The PUF was endowed with public lands, the ownership of which the state retained by terms of the 1845 annexation treaty between the Republic of Texas and the United States. While the PSF was first funded by an appropriation from the state legislature, it also received public lands at the same time that the PUF was created. The first SWF established for a sovereign state is the Kuwait Investment Authority, a commodity SWF created in 1953 from oil revenues before Kuwait gained independence from the United Kingdom. As of July 2023, Kuwait's Sovereign Wealth Fund, or locally known as Ajyal Fund, is now worth $853 billion.{{cite web | url=https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwait-sovereign-fund-ranks-fifth-in-world-2nd-regionally/ | title=Kuwait Sovereign Fund Ranks Fifth in World, 2nd Regionally - ARAB TIMES - KUWAIT NEWS | date=15 July 2023 }}
Another early registered SWF is the Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund of Kiribati. Since its creation in 1956, when the British administration of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia put a levy on the export of phosphates used in fertilizer, the fund has grown to $520 million.{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9230598 |title=The world's most expensive club |newspaper=The Economist |date=24 May 2007 |access-date=25 May 2007 |archive-date=26 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526102421/http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9230598 |url-status=live }}
Nature and purpose
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SWFs are typically created when governments have budgetary surpluses and have little or no international debt.{{Dubious|date=September 2023|reason=Norway holds some debt, but has massive wealth. Not sure what the benchmark for "typical" is here, if any}} It is not always possible or desirable to hold this excess liquidity as money or to channel it into immediate consumption. This is especially the case when a nation depends on raw material exports like oil, copper or diamonds. In such countries, the main reason for creating a SWF is because of the properties of resource revenue: high volatility of resource prices, unpredictability of extraction, and exhaustibility of resources.
SWFs are primarily commodity-based and many have been established by oil-rich states.{{Rp|page=5}} SWFs of China are a notable exception to this more typical model.{{Rp|page=5}}
Stabilization SWFs are created to reduce the volatility of government revenues, to counter the boom-bust cycles' adverse effect on government spending and the national economy.
Savings SWFs build up savings for future generations. One such fund is the Government Pension Fund of Norway. It is believed that SWFs in resource-rich countries can help avoid resource curse, but the literature on this question is controversial. Governments may be able to spend the money immediately, but risk causing the economy to overheat, e.g., in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela or Shah-era Iran. In such circumstances, saving money to spend during a period of low inflation is often desirable.
Other reasons for creating SWFs may be economic, or strategic, such as war chests for uncertain times. For example, the Kuwait Investment Authority during the Gulf War managed excess reserves above the level needed for currency reserves (although many central banks do that now). The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Temasek Holdings, or Mubadala are partially the expression of a desire to bolster their countries' standing as an international financial centre. The Korea Investment Corporation has since been similarly managed. Sovereign wealth funds invest in all types of companies and assets, including startups like Xiaomi and renewable energy companies like Bloom Energy.{{cite web
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According to a 2014 study, SWFs are not created for reasons related to reserve accumulation and commodity-export specialization. Rather, the diffusion of SWF can best be understood as a fad whereby certain governments consider it fashionable to create SWFs and are influenced by what their peers are doing.{{Cite journal|last=Chwieroth|first=Jeffrey M.|date=1 December 2014|title=Fashions and Fads in Finance: The Political Foundations of Sovereign Wealth Fund Creation|journal=International Studies Quarterly|language=en|volume=58|issue=4|pages=752–763|doi=10.1111/isqu.12140|issn=0020-8833|doi-access=free}}
As market participants, SWFs influence other institutional investors, who may see investments made alongside SWFs as inherently safer.{{Rp|page=9}} This effect can be seen with increasing frequency, especially with regard to investments made by the Government Pension Fund of Norway, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and Temasek Holdings, and China Investment Corporation.{{Rp|page=9}} SLFs help facilitate a state's ability to use its selective equity investments to promote its industrial policies and strategic interests.{{Rp|page=9}}
Concerns about SWFs
The growth of sovereign wealth funds is attracting close attention because:
- As this asset pool continues to expand in size and importance, so does its potential impact on various asset markets.
- Some countries, like the United States, which passed the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007, worry that foreign investment by SWFs raises national security concerns because the purpose of the investment might be to secure control of strategically important industries for political rather than financial gain.
- Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers has argued that the U.S. could potentially lose control of assets to wealthier foreign funds whose emergence "shake[s] [the] capitalist logic". These concerns have led the European Union (EU) to reconsider whether to allow its members to use "golden shares" to block certain foreign acquisitions.{{cite web
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}} This strategy has largely been excluded as a viable option by the EU, for fear it would give rise to a resurgence in international protectionism. In the United States, these concerns are addressed by the Exon–Florio Amendment to the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, Pub. L. No. 100-418, § 5021, 102 Stat. 1107, 1426 (codified as amended at 50 U.S.C. app. § 2170 (2000)), as administered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).{{Explain|reason=What does the law do or say?|date=September 2023}}
- Their inadequate transparency is a concern for investors and regulators: for example, size and source of funds, investment goals, internal checks and balances, disclosure of relationships, and holdings in private equity funds.
- SWFs are not nearly as homogeneous as central banks or public pension funds.
- A lack of transparency and hence an increase in risk to the financial system, perhaps becoming the "new hedge funds".{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article1991137.ece |title=IMF concern over 'black box' funds of reserve rich nations |work=The Times |date=27 June 2007 |location=London |first=Gary |last=Duncan |access-date=11 January 2018 |archive-date=11 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611203742/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article1991137.ece |url-status=dead }}
The governments of SWFs commit to follow certain rules:
- Accumulation rule (what portion of revenue can be spent/saved)
- Withdraw rule (when the Government can withdraw from the fund)
- Investment (where revenue can be invested in foreign or domestic assets){{cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/03/11-sovereign-wealth-funds |title=Rebuilding America: The Role of Foreign Capital and Global Public Investors|publisher=The Brookings Institution |author-first1=Gordon M. |author-last1=Goldstein|author-first2=Rick|author-last2=Kimball|author-first3=Joel H. |author-last3=Moser|author-first4=Raffiq|author-last4=Nathoo|author-first5=Vijaya|author-last5=Ramachandran|author-first6=Darrell M. |author-last6=West|author-first7=Daniel|author-last7=Zwirn|date=11 March 2011 |access-date=5 October 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094913/http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/03/11-sovereign-wealth-funds |url-status=dead }}
=Recent Governmental Interest=
- On 5 March 2008, a joint sub-committee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to discuss the role of "Foreign Government Investment in the U.S. Economy and Financial Sector". The hearing was attended by representatives of the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, Norway's Ministry of Finance, Singapore's Temasek Holdings, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
- On 20 August 2008, Germany approved a law that requires parliamentary approval for foreign investments that endanger national interests. Specifically, it affects acquisitions of more than 25% of a German company's voting shares by non-European investors—but the economics minister Michael Glos has pledged that investment reviews would be "extremely rare". The legislation is loosely modeled on a similar one by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investments. Sovereign wealth funds are also increasing their spending. In 2015, Qatar announced a $35 billion investment in United States assets over a period of five years.{{Cite journal|last=Global|first=IndraStra|title=How Are Sovereign Wealth Fund Decisions Made?|url=https://www.indrastra.com/2017/12/How-are-sovereign-wealth-fund-decisions-made-003-12-2017-0022.html|journal=IndraStra|issn=2381-3652|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-date=26 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020808/https://www.indrastra.com/2017/12/How-are-sovereign-wealth-fund-decisions-made-003-12-2017-0022.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theworldfolio.com/news/qatar-to-invest-35bn-in-us-over-5-years/4186/ |title=Qatar to invest $35bn in U.S. over 5 years |publisher=The WorldFolio |access-date=18 October 2016 |archive-date=18 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018220320/http://www.theworldfolio.com/news/qatar-to-invest-35bn-in-us-over-5-years/4186/ |url-status=live }}
- On 3 February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the creation of a United States sovereign wealth fund within the next year.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-03 |title=Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could own part of TikTok |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-wealth-fund-saudi-arabia-b71c92cb0deb1eb39352cd1cd4db4b98 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=AP News |language=en|author-first1=Zeke|author-last1=Miller|author-first2=Haleluya|author-last2=Hadero}}
- On 23 February 2025, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced a new sovereign wealth fund Daya Anagata Nusantara, also known as Danantara, which is expected to manage $900 billion in assets.{{Cite web |last1=Sulaiman |first1=Stefanno |last2=Teresia |first2=Ananda |date=23 February 2025 |title=New Indonesia sovereign wealth fund to invest $20 billion in projects |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesias-prabowo-officially-establishes-new-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-24/ |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=Reuters}} The $20 billion first wave of investments were announced as targeting natural resource processing, artificial intelligence, and energy and food security.{{Cite web |last1=Nangoy |first1=Fransiska |last2=Sulaiman |first2=Stefanno |date=28 February 2025 |title=Indonesia's new sovereign fund will run with commercial mindset, official says |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/indonesias-new-sovereign-fund-will-run-with-commercial-mindset-official-says-2025-02-28/ |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=Reuters}}
=Santiago Principles=
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A number of transparency indices sprang up before the Santiago Principles, some more stringent than others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}} To address these concerns, some of the world's main SWFs came together in a summit in Santiago, Chile, on 2–3 September 2008. Under the leadership of the IMF, they formed a temporary International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds. This working group then drafted the 24 Santiago Principles, to set out a common global set of international standards regarding transparency, independence, and accountability in the way that SWFs operate.[http://www.iwg-swf.org/pubs/eng/santiagoprinciples.pdf Sovereign Wealth Funds: Generally Accepted Principles and Practices (Santiago Principles)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218054516/http://www.iwg-swf.org/pubs/eng/santiagoprinciples.pdf |date=18 December 2016 }}, International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds, October 2008{{cite web|url=http://www.ifswf.org/santiago-principles|title=Santiago Principles|author=International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds|access-date=27 September 2016|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110202917/http://www.ifswf.org/santiago-principles|url-status=live}} These were published after being presented to the IMF International Monetary Financial Committee on 11 October 2008. They also considered a standing committee to represent them, and so a new organisation, the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds was set up to maintain the new standards going forward and represent them in international policy debates.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifswf.org/about-us|title=About us|author=International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds|access-date=27 September 2016|archive-date=9 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109013353/http://www.ifswf.org/about-us|url-status=live}}
As of 2016, 30 funds{{cite web|url=http://www.ifswf.org/our-members|title=Our Members|author=International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds|access-date=27 September 2016|archive-date=9 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109033616/http://www.ifswf.org/our-members|url-status=live}} have formally signed up to the Principles, representing collectively 80% of the assets managed by sovereign funds globally or US$5.5 trillion.{{cite web|url=http://www.hedgeweek.com/2016/04/04/238050/international-forum-sovereign-wealth-funds-ifswf-and-hedge-fund-standards-board-hf|title=International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) and Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) establish Mutual Observer relationship|publisher=Hedge Fund Standards Board|access-date=27 September 2016|date=4 April 2016|archive-date=27 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927210200/http://www.hedgeweek.com/2016/04/04/238050/international-forum-sovereign-wealth-funds-ifswf-and-hedge-fund-standards-board-hf|url-status=live}}
Natural resource-rich developing economies are typically encouraged to adopt good governance standards for sovereign wealth funds, such as the Santiago Principles, which emphasize transparency, accountability, and sound investment practices. This approach is often preferred over local content policies, which can foster corruption and rent-seeking behavior in contexts with weak governance.Bold Sandagdorj and Enerelt Enkhbold, [https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/1019676/adb-brief-326-mongolia-mining-supply-chain.pdf "Do Local Producers Contribute to Mongolia's Mining Supply Chain?"] ADB Briefs no. 326, 2024. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/BRF240565-2
Size of SWFs
Assets under management of SWFs amounted to $7.94 trillion as of 24 December 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fund |title=Sovereign Wealth Fund Rankings. Retrieved 2020-12-24 |publisher=swfinstitute.org |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=8 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508173939/https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fund |url-status=live }}
Countries with SWFs funded by oil and gas exports, totaled $5.4 trillion as of 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fund |title=Sovereign Wealth Fund Rankings |publisher=swfinstitute.org |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=8 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508173939/https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fund |url-status=live }} Non-commodity SWFs are typically funded by transfer of assets from official foreign exchange reserves, and in some cases from government budget surpluses and privatization revenues. Middle Eastern and Asian countries account for 77% of all SWFs.
Depletion of SWFs
Numerous SWFs have gone bust throughout history. The most notable ones have been Algeria's FRR, Brazil's FSB, Ecuador's numerous SWF arrangements, Papua New Guinea's MRSF, and Venezuela's FIEM and FONDEN. The main reason why these funds have been exhausted is due to political instability, while economic determinants generally play a less important role.{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2023.2190601?journalCode=rrip20 |title=The demise of sovereign wealth funds." ''Leonardo Di Bonaventura Altuve (retrieved 2023-04-04)|website=Taylor & Francis |doi=10.1080/09692290.2023.2190601 |s2cid=257817535 |access-date=5 April 2023 |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405200247/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2023.2190601?journalCode=rrip20 |url-status=live }}
SWFs in unstable countries may provoke risks for recipient states of SWF investments, given that the instability in SWF-sponsor countries makes those investments uncertain and likely to be disinvested to weather political risk in the short-term.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Highly stable countries, such as Denmark, Qatar, China, or Australia are less likely to experience SWF depletion precisely because of their political stability.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Largest sovereign wealth funds
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{{see also|List of sovereign wealth funds by country|List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves}}
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See also
References
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Further reading
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- Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute – What is a SWF? [https://www.swfinstitute.org/research/sovereign-wealth-fund What is a Sovereign Wealth Fund? - SWFI]
- Natural Resource Governance Institute & Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment "Managing the Public Trust: How to make natural resource funds work for citizens", 2014. [https://resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/NRF_Complete_Report_EN.pdf]
- Castelli Massimiliano and Fabio Scacciavillani "The New Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds", John Wiley & Sons, 2012
- Saleem H. Ali and Gary Flomenhoft. [http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000186 "Innovating Sovereign Wealth Funds"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303103021/http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000186 |date=3 March 2011 }}. Policy Innovations, 17 February 2011.
- M. Nicolas J. Firzli World Pensions Council (WPC) Asset Owners Report: “Infrastructure Investments in an Age of Austerity: The Pension and Sovereign Funds Perspective”, USAK/JTW 30 July 2011 and Revue Analyse Financière, Q4 2011
- M. Nicolas J. Firzli and Joshua Franzel. [https://www.academia.edu/7789625/Non-Federal_Sovereign_Wealth_Funds_in_the_United_States_and_Canada "Non-Federal Sovereign Wealth Funds in the United States and Canada"]. Revue Analyse Financière, Q3 2014
- Xu Yi-chong and Gawdat Bahgat, eds. The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 272 pages; case studies of SWFs in China, Kuwait, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries.
- Lixia, Loh. "Sovereign Wealth Funds: States Buying the World" (Global Professional Publishing: 2010).
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