| In the world of investing, there are the small players, big players and then the biggest players of all: sovereign-wealth funds, which are state-owned investment funds. The world's SWFs manage trillions of dollars' worth of investments on behalf of the governments that raised these funds through different forms of taxes, most frequently, by taxing natural-resource extraction.
The funds are usually set aside for when they are needed but in the meantime are allocated in a wide array of investments. The largest SWF is Norway's, Norway Government Pension Fund Global, which as of last June controlled $873 billion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute...............................................Full Article: Source |