Enhancing the Transparency of Sovereign Wealth Funds: From the Middle East to China

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

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Sovereign wealth funds in the mutation of global finance

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) started making the headlines in the midst of the global financial crisis. They were welcomed neither by academics nor by politicians of Western countries. In a flurry of 2008 papers SWF were peremptorily told what they should and shouldn’t do. The reasoning underlying the prescriptive norms was flawed in two respects. First it simply equated SWFs to other instituti...

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...