| Despite a possible future slowdown in the global economy, direct sovereign wealth fund transactions for the first half of 2015 conquered the first half of 2014. According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Transaction Database (SWFTD), wealth funds generated US$ 64 billion worth of deals in the first half of 2015 versus US$ 52 billion in the first half of 2014. While this trend is promising in regard to wealth funds acquiring more in the first half of 2014, SWFI recorded 910 observations versus 833 observations in the first half of 2015.
These institutional investors became slightly more bullish in direct investing in developed markets in 2015. In Europe, the United Kingdom received the most wealth fund inflows of direct investment in the first half of 2015, some US$ 21.1 billion, trumping their peers. However, more sovereign investors embarked on investing in continental Europe real estate versus a strong preference toward London...............................................Full Article: Source
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