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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"sovereign wealth funds"”.
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Optimal Portfolio Construction for Oil-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds
… is to examine the efforts of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in diversifying revenue streams and mitigating risks associated with an excessive dependence on oil. To achieve this, the study proposes an adaptation of the subset-optimization algorithm within the mean-variance model, aiming …
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An analysis of Sovereign Wealth Funds and international real estate investments
In recent times Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have become an important source of international real estate investments. A number of reports predict the swelling of SWF combined assets from its current figure of $3-4 trillion to $8-12 trillion by 2015. It is also expected that a continuous growth in …
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Sovereign wealth funds as coping mechanisms in the global economy: three Emirati case studies
This thesis argues that Sovereign Wealth Funds based in small emerging market economies necessarily fulfil a double-sided coping function in today's globalised economy: a coping function because the task of promoting the home country's economic growth through closer integration into the global …
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Leviathan's double bottom line : Sovereign wealth funds as tools of strategic statecraft by Shannon A. Murphy.
Sovereign wealth accounts for a massive, and growing, source of global financial capital. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) hold about $5 trillion in assets, nearly double the aggregated assets of the global hedge fund community. Sovereign capital is markedly more concentrated among a relatively small …
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The Electoral Temptations of Natural Resource Revenues: Towards a Theory on the Origins of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Canada
… towards establishing a theory on the origins of sovereign wealth funds in Canada and argues that despite claims that they are inter-generational savings vehicles, in practice these funds are a means to create near- and medium-term fiscal flexibility that benefits the electoral prospects of …
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The impact of sovereign wealth investment on the commercial real estate investment market
This thesis explores the relationship between Sovereign Wealth Fund participation in the United States and office risk premium. Over the past 10 years the commercial real estate industry has been the benefactor of a shifting tide in equity capital formation. Sovereign Wealth Funds, proliferating …
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Analysis of investment prospects for Chinese private equity firms in the U.S. market
With the wealth and experience accumulated during the past decade, Chinese private equity (PE) firms have emerged as active investors in cross-border acquisition deals. Ambitious global expansion plans of Chinese companies and a supportive regulatory environment further boost the demand for such …
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The persistence of business performance in sample soybean farms from Mato Grosso and Illinois
… institutional, private equity, and sovereign wealth funds has increased in recent years as investors find attractive characteristics in this asset class such as favorable risk adjusted returns, an inflation hedge, and a negative correlation with many other asset classes. Investors …
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Foreign institutional investment in China's real estate market
… both the public and private entities such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, equity funds, banks and insurance firms. An increasing interest from global investors has been observed recently. The total property transaction volume of foreign institutional investment in mainland China set …
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Economic statecraft with Chinese characteristics : the use of commercial actors in China's grand strategy
… access to strategic raw materials, and China's sovereign wealth funds. The study compares cases of both successful and unsuccessful economic statecraft across each of these empirical contexts. This study finds that economic statecraft is not an easy lever of national power for states to wield …
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Contracts, not concrete : de-risking private finance of sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets
… with long-dated capital supply - from pension funds, insurers or sovereign wealth funds - has never been so high on the agenda of governments, climate funds and multilateral development banks. It has been argued that with the right policies and incentives in place, and with careful use of …
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Essays on executive compensation and dividend policy
… the first chapter examines the impact of sovereign wealth fund (SWF) ownership on firm executive compensation and the second examines the impact that various dividend payout policies have on stock prices. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. CHAPTER 1: Sovereign wealth …
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Three Essays in Asset Management: Ethical and Investment Exclusions
… portfolio screenings most useful for attracting funds from ethically concerned investors and are least in favour of using them for risk management purposes. Furthermore, professionals express the lowest levels of disagreement about the expected returns of non-controversial sectors, relative to …