| It is yet to celebrate its sixth birthday, but Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has long attracted criticism. It courted controversy as early as 2007 when it awarded its back-office administration contract to a foreign company, US-based Northern Trust.
It emerged later that Northern Trust had been linked with US energy giant Enron, which collapsed in controversy early last decade. Northern Trust had acted as a trustee of the Enron staff pension scheme, which invested heavily in Enron stock...............................................Full Article: Source
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