| Six years after it was announced, Angola’s sovereign wealth fund is fully underway. It has received the final instalment of its $5bn initial endowment and has begun to take its funds out of cash and put them into longer-term investment.
In an interview with FT beyondbrics, José Filomeno Dos Santos, chairman of the Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), said that one third of the fund’s assets would be allocated to highly liquid securities such as cash, bonds and listed equities, one third into alternative investments in sub-Saharan Africa, and one third into what he called “opportunistic investments internationally: distressed assets that the fund could take advantage of, spin around and refocus.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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