Sustaining wealth: Simulating a sovereign wealth fund for the UK's oil and gas resources, past and future

Patterns and Trends in Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments: A Post-Crisis Descriptive Analysis

A nalyzing more than 9,400 investment transactions performed by 32 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), from 23 countries, and targeted towards 77 countries, between 2010 and 2013, this study highlights some of the most important visible patterns and nuances in SWF investments. First, lion’s share of SWF investments are cross-border transactions that originated from and targeted towards hi...

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds’ organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home inve...

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

A solution for financing the upstream oil and gas industry using the project fund

Financing is one of the most important challenges in launching new projects. Different methods of financing have different effects on project performance due to the variety of market and its risk and return. One of the new methods of financing projects is the creation of a project fund through the capital market, which investors are the final owner of the project, so participate in the economic...

Political Capitalism and the Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Sovereign wealth funds are neither novel nor constitute any decisive shift towards state control. States and markets are co-constitutive, but states have power precisely because of their ability to define property rights and thus draw the boundary between public and private activity. The way they draw that boundary determines the nature of capitalism in any specific market. ‘Sovereign wealth fu...