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By Diego Lopez, global sovereign wealth funds director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). You can download the full report here.

The global economy has witnessed the emergence of a new set of key actors over the last two decades. Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Pension Funds (PFs) – or Sovereign Investors – have become pivotal players in global financial markets thanks to their liquidity, and continue to grow rapidly in number and in size. This group of highly heterogeneous funds has different backgrounds, structures, and missions, but shares an ultimate goal: to preserve capital and maximize the return on investments.

While the economic crisis and subsequent cash constraints in developed economies quickly brought these investors to the forefront, the global economic recovery is intensifying the competition for high returns. The Asset Management industry is expecting a number of fundamental shifts; hence the way many asset managers operate in 2020 will be significantly different from the current model (PwC 2014). Similarly, sovereign investors keep adapting their investment strategy and focus, and this will condition the performance of the global markets over the next five years...

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