Sovereign Wealth Funds

Issued by the International Institute of Sovereign Wealth Funds  SWFs an update of the investments of sovereign wealth funds in the world for the fourth quarter of last year, according to these estimates the total investment funds, sovereign wealth in the world in the fourth quarter of 2010 amounted to $ 4.1 trillion, and notes from the table that sovereign wealth funds recovered levels investments at the international level, after the decline in these funds in the wake of the global financial crisis, which could be attributed to the surplus achieved by the countries that own these funds in the balance of payments, while not a direct these surpluses to invest in the national economies of the State of the royal of these funds, based on the limited capacity of domestic law of those States, and give rise to these huge investments of SWFs concern of industrial countries is clear, and international concern stems from the wealth funds of the political weakness of transparency surrounding the investment of these funds, and fear Of the possibility of using those assets to finance other non-commercial purposes.

According to estimates by the International Institute for sovereign wealth funds, have the GCC sovereign wealth funds with a total investment of U.S. $ 1.42 trillion, which represents about 35 per cent of total investments of sovereign wealth funds in the world.
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