| Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs economist who became a British Treasury minister, completed a doctoral thesis arguing that Opec oil producers did not put their savings to good use. Gulf sovereigns paid scant attention to rates of return, he wrote – and worse, made investment decisions on an “ad hoc basis".
But now, 23 years later, Mr O’Neill is visiting the UAE to ask its sovereign wealth funds to invest their savings into Britain’s post-industrial northern cities, as part of an infrastructure initiative the UK government calls the “Northern Powerhouse". The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), for example, holds a significant property portfolio in London as well as stakes in hotels and UK utilities...............................................Full Article: Source
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