| The 46 countries that have at least one sovereign wealth fund have largely set them up for a rainy day. Now that day has come for most of them. Commodity prices are so depressed that governments need to unseal their piggy banks and with profitable investment opportunities scarce there is little incentive not to. This could end up putting downward pressure on global financial markets.
Of the top 30 sovereign funds, 18 are filled with revenues from oil and gas. The largest of the funds, set up in 1990 to safeguard Norway’s oil wealth for future generations, posted its biggest loss in four years this week. It shed $32 billion in the third quarter, all in the stock market, which accounts for 60 percent of its investments...............................................Full Article: Source |