| Renewed calls for the Norway Pension Fund-Global and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to be broken into smaller pieces has re-ignited the debate over how big is “too big” for sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). In Norway, the government’s opposition this month said it was time to consider breaking up the world’s largest SWF—which stood at $737 billion at the end of June—into smaller, more manageable funds.
In Qatar, there have been suggestions that the $115 billion QIA could function better as a couple of smaller entities, but so far there has been little political will in either country to change the status quo...............................................Full Article: Source |