All sovereign wealth funds articles
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NewsNorway’s SWF bans stocks on environment, cannabis, tobacco grounds
Four cannabis and three tobacco stocks cut from GPFG’s benchmark, and Indian, Korean firms dumped due to risk of environmental damage
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Sovereign wealth funds switch to private markets in major asset reallocation
SWF investors now own $719bn in private assets, up from $205bn in 2011
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Shift to equities as sovereigns seek liquidity, Invesco survey shows
Tilting towards active allocations and longer time horizons seen mitigating risk of high valuations
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BlackRock, Temasek form VC, PE decarbonisation partnership
BlackRock CEO says patient, well-managed capital needed to scale transformational innovation
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Norway SWF to cut number of stocks by 25-30%, shedding smallest
Finance ministry sets out 2021 white paper on Norwegian Government Pension Fund
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Poor work conditions prompt Norway’s SWF to divest textile firms
But opts for active ownership tools in the case of PetroChina, despite council’s advice to divest
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Sovereign investors take advantage of COVID-19 buying opportunity
SWFs aim to increase allocations to fixed income, private equity and infrastructure
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SWFs keep risk exposure during pandemic
Investors were already either overweight cash or underweight equities before March 2020
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Opinion Pieces
The case for a UK sovereign wealth fund
In November 2012 I suggested in an article in IPE that the UK should set up a sovereign wealth fund. The House of Commons had a parliamentary debate on setting one up in December 2016* and included the IPE article in the background papers. Unfortunately, Brexit overshadowed all else, but now that it is done, there may be a case for revisiting the arguments.
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Norway’s SWF holds €60bn of negative-yielding bonds
Fixed income netted the NOK9.4trn fund 3.1% in the second quarter of 2019, but a quarter of its allocation now yields less than 0%
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Sovereign investors ‘preparing for end of market cycle’: Invesco
Equity allocations fall while fixed income and alternatives holdings increase, according to Invesco’s annual sovereign investor survey
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Norway oil fund chair slams government plan to take more SWF money
Idea ‘violates’ good budget practice, says central bank governor Øystein Olsen
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Domestic investments net 4.7% gain for Irish sovereign fund
ISIF’s €4.1bn in Irish investments have attracted a further €7.5bn from external investors
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Irish sovereign fund backs $400m genomics research project
Irish Strategic Investment Fund invests alongside Singapore’s Temasek sovereign fund in DNA research group
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State pension liabilities pose biggest threat to Germany’s credit rating
German economist proposes €1trn sovereign wealth fund to cope with future first-pillar funding
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Norway’s sovereign fund ‘should stay invested in energy stocks’
Sector seen only contributing “marginally” to Norway’s energy risk
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Sovereign wealth funds develop climate change framework
Framework underpinned by principles of ‘alignment’, ‘ownership’, and ‘integration’
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Public pensions, sovereign funds target infrastructure increases
Global investors plan to pile into infrastructure and real estate in the next two years
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Norges Bank offers paths for SWF to stay invested in oil and gas stocks
Manager of Norway’s giant oil fund also reverses initial proposal to cut alternative energy providers
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Norway’s SWF lost almost €18bn in Q1 – but still beat its benchmark
Strategic 70% equities allocation means fluctuations mainly determined by global stock markets, says CEO
