| Despite owning vast swathes of prime London real estate and big stakes in some of the world’s biggest companies, Qatar’s £165billion sovereign wealth fund tries its best to operate below the radar. The notoriously secretive Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) does not publish accounts, meaning it is impossible to gauge exactly what it owns and how its investments are performing.
But it is easy to imagine Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Thani – the Qatari royal who doubles up as the QIA’s chief executive – baulking at recent headlines about the staggering losses his fund has incurred in recent weeks...............................................Full Article: Source
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