Using a novel, hand-collected dataset of Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) investments in public equities, private firms, and real estate, we establish what SWF portfolios look like. SWF allocations are balanced across risky asset classes, very home-region biased, and very biased toward certain...

Currently, the regulation of hedge funds, private equity and sovereign wealth funds is lively debated. The activities developed by these investment vehicles on the financial markets are linked to the 2007-2009 financial crisis. While hedge funds are considered to have represented a cause of the...

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have steadily increased their importance in the global financial system in the last decade and especially during the financial crisis period. They currently have almost $6 trillion assets under management, which is more than the assets of Private Equity and Hedge...