China’s sovereign wealth fund is eyeing greater investment in Germany to strengthen its foothold in the manufacturing powerhouse, the fund’s deputy chief has said. Li Keping , vice-chairman of China Investment Corporation, said the more than US$7 billion it had put into Germany was a key part of its global holdings portfolio.
Much of the money flowed through the open market in the form of equities and bonds, Li told a business forum at the German embassy in Beijing on Wednesday. CIC expected to keep those levels largely stable but saw significant room to expand investments in cooperation with private equity funds in Germany, in addition to increasing direct investment………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Future Fund, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will invest up to $200 million in India next year, Steve Byrom, its head of private equity fund told ET. Praising the new government for its initiatives, Byrom said that today, India is considered low risk over China and hence the fund will continue to maintain its pace of investments in India.
Future Fund, besides investing in private equity funds also does co-investments on a deal to deal basis. This, says Byrom, eliminates the need for an India dedicated office as of now. “We let the partner GPs source the deals for us. We look at co-investment opportunities on a deal to deal basis,” Byrom told ET on the sidelines of a private equity event here in Mumbai………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Top Australian superannuation funds, led by sovereign wealth vehicle the Future Fund, are again pushing into international markets with strategies drawing them into new countries and asset classes not available locally. The local funds are driving into fresh areas with debt house Quadrant Real Estate Advisors scooping up $500 million for investment in Britain and Ireland and the Future Fund backing a venture investing in European real estate firms.
The $117 billion Future Fund has invested in ICAMAP Investors, a private equity fund that has €500m ($725m) of committed capital to invest in small and medium-sized real estate companies across Europe. The business was set up by a trio of real estate professionals including former Unibail Rodamco chief executive Guillaume Poitrinal………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Years have passed since the aftermath of the global financial crisis as central banks still prop up developed economies with quantitative easing (QE) policies. Institutional investors who placed bets on financial assets such as London real estate and U.S. equities, in general, clearly benefitted. The fragile recovery has prevented the Federal Reserve from lifting interest rates sooner.
As stewards of public capital, sovereign funds like Singapore’s GIC Private Limited interpret the widespread adoption of low interest rates as a clear sign the world economy is sick and still needs help. The current interest rate regime has made it challenging for sovereign funds and other long-term investors to find “safe” investments, often forcing them to become lenders of capital………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Revenues of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) from the sale of profit oil from oilfield block Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) and gas from gas condensate field Shah Deniz totaled $6.56 bn for Jan-Nov 2015. The Fund reports that, $6.258 bn of this amount accounted for income from the sale of profit oil from ACG and $302 million from the sale of profit gas from Shah Deniz.
“In general, SOFAZ received about $116.409 bn from sale of profit oil of Azerbaijan from ACG from 2001 to 1 December 2015 and $2.422 bn from sale of gas from Shah Deniz field since 2007,” the Fund informed………………………………………..Full Article: Source

CVC Capital Partners and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte agreed to buy Carlyle Group LP’s stake in British roadside assistance company RAC.
CVC and GIC plan to invest in RAC’s technology, data and telematics platform and see a “significant long-term growth opportunity,” according to an e-mailed statement today. The companies didn’t disclose the value of the transaction………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Government might have violated dictates of standard practice across the world in setting up sovereign wealth funds, research findings by a local economic think tank have revealed. The findings are contained in the Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit’s study titled Global Best Practice in Establishing and Managing SWF in Zimbabwe.
According to the findings presented in Harare at a validation workshop, setting up of the SWF was against normal and best practice, as Zimbabwe is battling unsustainable external debts. In the study, ZEPARU said Zimbabwe made a political decision to establish a SWF and enacted a legal instrument in the form of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe Act 2014 and subsequently set up the fund in 2014……………………………………….Full Article: Source

According to a legal document that was filled with the Washington-based Security and Exchange Commission on December 1, 2015, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority an insider in General Growth Properties Inc, made a sale of shares worth $1,097,181 USD in the public firm.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority disposed 42,489 new shares, at average $25.8 per share. In the last 30 days, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority also sold shares that are worth $ USD. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority now has rights to 38.47 million shares or 10%+ of General Growth Properties Inc’s market cap………………………………………..Full Article: Source

Founding partners in Grupo BTG Pactual SA took control of the Brazilian investment bank from jailed financier André Esteves on Wednesday in an attempt to distance the firm from the most sweeping corruption investigation in the country’s history.
The bank announced the sale of a 12 percent stake in Rede D’Or Sao Luiz SA, Brazil’s largest hospital chain, to Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd for about 2.4 billion reais ($619 million), confirming a Reuters report last week. GIC had bought a 16 percent stake in Rede D’Or in May………………………………………..Full Article: Source

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global; Glasgow University; the London School of Economics; the city of Muenster, Germany; and the Church of England are also divesting from the most heavily polluting fossil fuels.
“The movement started at college campuses”, observed Ellen Dorsey, executive director of Wallace Global Fund, one of the driving forces behind the Divest/Invest initiative. “The snowball is rolling,” she said………………………………………..Full Article: Source