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- Insurance Firms: The Missing Link In The Sovereign Wealth Fund Acquisition Spree
- Sovereign Wealth Funds SWFs are emerging as key players in global capital markets. Based largely out of the Middle East and Asia and funded by oil and merchandise exports, respectively, SWFs fl aunt 3 trillion-dollar-deep pockets and high projected growth rates. In addition to these factors, their recent spree of...
- White papers 2008-07-16
- CIC Boosts Foreign Investment 10 Times In 2009; Other Sovereign Funds Follow
- Just when you thought the China-led global equity market rally couldn't continue on unabated past summer, think again. Sovereign wealth funds are coming out to pick up a share of the action. by Daniel M. Harrison
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
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- Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Outpacing the Country ETF
- Carl T. Delfeld submits: Temasek, Singapore's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, [SWF] is certainly doing far better than Singapore exchange-traded funds such as the iShares MSCI Singapore EWS that is down almost 17% year-to-date. The lesson is that it pays to play as a big boy with lots...
- External links 2008-08-25
- State media says China's vast sovereign wealth fund 'stabilising force'
- BEIJING AFP — China Investment Corp., a company established recently to handle 200 billion dollars of forex reserves, has vowed to play a "stabilising role" in global financial markets, state media said Friday. Lou Jiwei, the former vice finance minister in charge of the company, said no similar sovereign...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- Merrill Lynch Economists Expect Sovereign Wealth Fund Assets to Quadruple by 2011
- NEW YORK -- A new report by Merrill Lynch MER Global Research says that assets under management in Sovereign Wealth Funds SWFs could grow more than four-fold by 2011, surging from US$1.9 trillion to US$7.9 trillion. The research report, titled "The overflowing bathtub, the running tap and SWFs," states that...
- Research articles 2007-10-12
- Monitor Group Research Reveals Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Shift from Western Markets to Middle East, North Africa and Asia
- Funds Focus on Real Estate, Move Away from Financial Services CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Sovereign wealth funds SWFs are shifting investments away from the United States and Europe and into the Middle East and Asian economies, according to research released today by Monitor Group, one of the world's leading advisory...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
- British Land builds on talk of wealth fund investment
- Commercial property groups were in focus amid talk that a sovereign wealth fund was looking to build a stake in British Land. Shares in the group rose 11¾p to 493p as traders speculated about the identity of the interested party, with China seen as the most likely suitor. State-owned China...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Sovereign Wealth Funds: Benefit or Threat?
- Just when CEOs thought they had a handle on secretive and powerful hedge funds, they must consider a quieter but even bigger monster -- Sovereign Wealth Funds. These government-owned funds, including ones in China, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Singapore, represent more than $2.5 trillion in global assets,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Fed's wealth fund pledge
- Scott Alvarez, general counsel for the Federal Reserve's board of directors, spoke before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs last week to allay the concerns surrounding the spate of investments made by sovereign wealth funds in major U.S. financial firms.
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- Gulf fund eyes purchase of US Chrysler Building
- NEW YORK AFP — New York's Chrysler Building, a skyscraper icon, is being targeted for purchase by an oil-rich Middle East sovereign wealth fund, US media reported Thursday. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council, an investment arm of the Gulf emirate, is in talks with a subsidiary of Prudential Financial...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- Dubai's Debt Troubles: Beginning of the Next Leg Down?
- Most of us have heard that Dubai World is asking for a six month delay in paying back its debt. The debt was supposedly backed by the Dubai government, so Standard & Poor's considers this a default of the Dubai government . Dubai...
- News items 2009-11-29
- Dubai's Debt Troubles: Beginning of the Next Leg Down?
- Most of us have heard that Dubai World is asking for a six month delay in paying back its debt. The debt was supposedly backed by the Dubai government, so Standard & Poor's considers this a default of the Dubai government . Dubai...
- News items 2009-12-01
- Government Funds Ready for Alternative Investment Products
- Brighton House Associates, LLC submits: The number of government funds seeking alternative investment products has been increasing in the past two weeks. In the past week alone, 10 government institutions have indicated their interest in alternatives. This number is an increase from an average of two to three government...
- External links 2009-07-17
- China's CIC eyes $1 billion funding in Australian miner
- By Joseph Chaney and George Chen SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG.AX) and China Investment Corp CIC, China's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, are in advanced talks on a $1 billion-plus convertible bond investment to help the Australian iron ore miner fund its expansion, two sources said...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Finmeccanica, Kazakhstan sign MoU
- ROME, Nov. 6 UPI -- Italian aerospace and defense company Finmeccanica has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Kazakhstan sovereign wealth fund for a raft of cooperation deals. The agreements cover helicopters, railways and electro-optics, including tank upgrades. Kairat Kelimbetov, the chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna, and...
- News items 2009-11-06
- CIC SETS PRICE RANGE FOR MORGAN STANLEY EQUITY UNITS
- AsiaInfo Services 12-26-2007 CIC Sets Price Range for Morgan Stanley Equity Units BEIJING, Dec 26, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation CIC announced it has decided on the buying price o AsiaInfo Services...
- Research articles 2007-12-26
- Gulf Air Revisits Orders, Mergers
- Gulf Air may reduce the size of its big aircraft orders as the airline looks yet again at revamping its strategy and reducing its losses. "In light of our new network, we will be engaging our manufacturers in discussions," CEO Samer Majali said in an interview. Gulf Air has placed...
- News items 2009-08-25
- 8 trades the insiders allegedly made
- NEW YORK Fortune -- The government's case in what it is calling the largest insider trading case involving a U.S. hedge fund contains a detailed list of trades involving household-name companies. Investigators have pieced together a case that alleges more than $25 million in illegal gains based on trading in...
- News items 2009-10-19
- ALIBABA PLANS TO REPURCHASE STAKE FROM YAHOO!
- AsiaInfo Services 03-21-2008 Alibaba Plans to Repurchase Stake from Yahoo! BEIJING, Mar 21, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The Chinese Internet firm Alibaba Group now is in talks with two investors, including a China sovereign wealth fund, about the AsiaInfo Services 03-21-2008...
- Research articles 2008-03-21
- US strikes investment accords with Abu Dhabi, Singapore funds
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Treasury said Thursday it had reached a series of agreements with two powerful sovereign wealth funds based in Abu Dhabi and Singapore covering investments in US markets. The agreements were hammered out in a meeting at the US Treasury hosted by Treasury Secretary Henry...
- Research articles 2008-03-20
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