| The world’s most active sovereign wealth funds are also among the least transparent and least likely to comply with corporate governance norms, according to a review by consultancy GeoEconomica. The Geneva-based political risk group ranked 31 funds against principles of good governance and financial disclosure standards that they all signed up to in Santiago in 2008, and found that many of the most active groups fell short.
GeoEconomica’s conclusion underscores the opaque nature of some funds, which have the deepest pockets, even as they pervade the corporate world by expanding abroad and ramping up their direct investments in companies and infrastructure projects...............................................Full Article: Source
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