| The sound of sovereign wealth funds sucking money back home is whistling through the asset management industry. But the direst forecasts for asset managers may be overblown. Sovereign funds have ballooned, from $3.3 trillion in 2007 to $7.2 trillion by the middle of 2015, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, a research firm.
At the end of 2014, SWFs -- many of them from commodity-rich countries -- had $1.9 trillion in equities, $900 billion in fixed income and short-term liquid assets and $400 billion in alternative investments, including real estate, hedge funds and private equity, according to a Bloomberg News report last month based on Moody's research...............................................Full Article: Source
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