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Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors In Search Of An Identity In The 21st Century, Locknie Hsu Feb 2018

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors In Search Of An Identity In The 21st Century, Locknie Hsu

Locknie HSU

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), as they have come to be known, are a hybrid type of foreign investor. They invest beyond their own borders with an aim to maximize returns as a foreign investor is expected to. At the same time, they are closely associated with governments, by ownership, source of funding, and/or investment objectives. Even as within this group, individual SWFs take various forms and may have divergent investment priorities and risk approaches. There is not even a universal definition of SWFs. As a result, they are often not viewed as typical foreign investors. The association of a SWF …