SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND APPLICATIONS IN TURKEY AND THE WORLD

Patterns and Trends in Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments: A Post-Crisis Descriptive Analysis

A nalyzing more than 9,400 investment transactions performed by 32 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), from 23 countries, and targeted towards 77 countries, between 2010 and 2013, this study highlights some of the most important visible patterns and nuances in SWF investments. First, lion’s share of SWF investments are cross-border transactions that originated from and targeted towards hi...

Investment Analysis of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the world

SWFs play an important role in global financial market. With more active investment, increasingly optimized portfolio and stronger endurance to risk, SWFs are growing fast both by scale and by quantity. In this essay, the status quo of SWFs is discussed at first, and investment strategies are analyzed thereafter. After presenting global investment routes of SWFs, this article finally ends in su...

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

Overcoming Information Asymmetry in Internationalization: The Signaling Effect of a Sovereign Wealth Fund as an Institutional Intermediary

Combining perspectives from the literature on institutional activism and signaling theory, we suggest that a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), owing to its distinctive properties as a government-owned foreign institutional investor, serves as an intermediary signaler, providing cues about host countries’ institutional environment to internationalizing firms. By publicizing its investments and engagi...