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Locknie HSU

Sovereign wealth funds

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The Role And Future Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Trade And Investment Perspective, Locknie Hsu Feb 2018

The Role And Future Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Trade And Investment Perspective, Locknie Hsu

Locknie HSU

Sovereign wealth funds ("SWFs") have been greeted with bothenthusiasm and suspicion. In one respect, they have been called "white knights," where they step in to inject financing to troubledentities.' In others, they have been called "Trojan horses" and"chameleons."


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 …