| Should they buy or sell stocks? How will oil-based sovereign funds experience a slowdown in the accumulation of financial assets? When equity returns become an important factor for Gulf sovereign fund asset growth, the impact of falling listed equity markets raises issues of fund liquidity. This is why a number of Gulf funds have been redeeming equity mandates in late 2015.
This appears to have been a smart move as 2016 is off to a terrible beginning with China and U.S. equity markets in free fall. Why? Just to name a few – concerned about yuan devaluation, low growth in emerging markets, and falling manufacturing figures in China. On January 7th, 2015, the People’s Bank of China lowered its reference rate for the yuan by 0.5%. The central bank policy move triggered panic; the Chinese equity market closed only 29 minutes after opening when the 7% decline threshold was met...............................................Full Article: Source
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