Sovereign Wealth Funds – ESADEgeo Annual Report 2013

by Javier Santiso ESADEgeo’s new report, Sovereign Wealth Funds 2013, shows the decline in direct investments experienced by SWFs in 2012:

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Financing the Expansion of Global Energy – The Role of SWF Investment as Strategic Private Equity

by Patrick J. Schena By any measure, the role of the energy sector in any economy has strategic implications for

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Complying with the SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rules

by Christopher Cunningham, Josh Gaul On August 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new rules (the

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Hunter or Prey: Only Time Will Tell

by Francesco Galietti Historically, Italy has been a recipient of investments by SWFs long before SWFs became a topic for scholars

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Institutional Investor Asset Management in Low Return / High Risk World

by Dr. Eliot Kalter Dr. Eliot Kalter’s Presentation to the State Street Middle East client retreat, 26-27 February, 2013 Table of

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Sovereign Investment Vehicles and the Case for Social Returns – Toward a Research Agenda

by Patrick J. Schena, Nicholas Roose, Kanishk Bishoi While SWFs unequivocally seek financial returns as a result of various mandates, there

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Institutional Investor Asset Management in a Low Return-High Risk World

by Dr. Eliot Kalter Dr. Eliot Kalter’s Presentation at Americas Government Funds Roundtable, 13-14 September, 2012 Table of Contents: I. Global Economic

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Chinese banks controlled by SWFs receive key approvals from Federal Reserve, highlighting treatment of SWFs under US banking laws

by Sean P. Mahoney, Eric S. Yoon Can and should Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) become bank holding companies in the

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Regulatory Reform and its Implications for SWF Risk Management in the “New Era”

by Dr. Ron D’Vari Dr. D’Vari discusses global risk management and the investment landscape for Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and

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Attracting Talent to the Frontiers of Finance

by Jagdeep Singh Bachher, Ashby H. B. Monk In the aftermath of the financial crisis, institutional investors have become increasingly dissatisfied with

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On the Need to Rethink the Endowment Model… Again

by Patrick J. Schena, Eliot Kalter While it is true that Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have been attracted to university endowments

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Leviathans Double Bottom Line – Sovereign Wealth Funds as Tools of Strategic Statecraft

by Shannon A. Murphy Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) account for a massive, and growing, source of global financial capital. SWFs

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FCPA and Other Anti-Corruption Concerns Facing Sovereign Wealth Funds

by Luke Cadigan, Robert Hadley, Elizabeth Robertson, Amy Sommers Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) wield a staggering amount of financial influence. Given

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Regime Changer? Sovereign Wealth Funds and the International Investment System

by David G. Fromm In the past two decades, the use of bilateral investment treaties as vehicles to facilitate foreign direct

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