20.02.2014 - How the Saudi Arabian dream could lift solar stocks
When Saudi Arabia runs out of oil, what will sustain the nation of 28 million? That is the question that the nation's leaders have thought long and hard about. One solution is putting surplus petrodollars into a sovereign wealth fund, which would invest that surplus in good times and provide steady interest income when the oil runs out. Saudi Arabia has done just that, and now has the second largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with assets of $675.9 billion. At its present size, however, assuming an 8% annual return, which would yield interest income of $54 billion, the sovereign wealth fund would not be able to compensate for Saudi Arabia's current oil income of around $300 billion a year...............................................Full Article: Source
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