International financial relations have largely been defined by cross-border trade, foreign direct investments, and global banking relations. This paper demonstrates that another activity, sovereign investments by special vehicles known as sovereign wealth funds, is rapidly redefining the...

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) represent a new form of investment organizational structure and have grown to over $5.7 trillion assets under management by February 2016, making them a financial force potentially worth reckoning with in international financial markets. This article starts with a...

This paper studies the regulatory issues related to the “Sovereign Wealth Funds” (SWFs), described as “special purpose” government investment vehicles.Concerns have been expressed due to SWFs limited disclosure and transparency and their multiple investment objectives.While the risk of a...

This paper argues that Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has been largely shielded from the short-termism of the democratic debate. Besides the Fund's ethical guidelines, it seems that the second most central side effect of being embedded in the state apparatus, is that the Fund's development...