| Nigeria’s $1.55 billion sovereign wealth fund (SWF) had a “good year” after weighting its investments toward dollar assets, according to Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Uche Orji. “Our currency position was great as we were very long the dollar,” Bloomberg quoted Orji, a former Goldman Sachs Incorporated banker and head of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority to have said in an interview in Geneva.
The Abuja-based wealth fund, set up by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, gained exposure to the dollar through equities, private equity and fixed-income assets, said Harvard-trained Orji. The fund, which invests revenue generated when the OIL PRICE exceeds that budgeted by the government of Africa’s biggest crude producer, has adjusted to the market slump since June, he added...............................................Full Article: Source
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