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A summary of some recent blogosphere offerings on sovereign wealth funds:
Rationale for investing: Helmut Reisen, “How to spend it: Sovereign wealth funds and the wealth of nations” at RGE Monitor.
Development economics points to four major motives for countries to run such funds…

Investing in the US: Tom Taulli, “Sovereign wealth funds: Still an appetite for US financial institutions?” at BloggingStocks.
So far, sovereign wealth funds have had bad luck with investments in U.S. financial institutions such as with Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER)…

Nigeria’s fund: Solomon Sydelle, “Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund” at Nigerian Curiosity.
Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) was one of the fastest growing in 2007. The SWF grew at a rate of 291%…

Investing in India: Sanjiv Shankaran: “No threat from Sovereign Wealth Funds, says Finmin” at LiveMint.com.
New Delhi: Four months after it set out to find whether foreign sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) pose a threat to India’s interests, the country’s finance ministry has decided that they don’t…


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