The rise of sovereign wealth funds signals a shift in the balance of economic and financial power in the world, with fast-rising powers creating sovereign wealth funds to invest billions in relatively new-found wealth. Discussions and analyses of sovereign wealth thus tend to focus on...

The period from 2003 to 2013 shows a remarkable shift in the use and effectiveness of shareholder proposals. Shareholders pursued many different types of proposals over the decade, eight of which are identified in this article as most important to corporate governance. The article then provides...

From the beginnings of the sustainable finance market and of green, social, and sustainable debt as an asset class, sustainability verifiers have been essential to the market’s function. Sustainability verifiers—professional service providers who provide an external review of an issuer’s...

The Public Funds Investment Policies Survey is an annual publication, now in its fourth year, which surveys the current investment policy disclosures of the 25 largest (by AUM) sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the world, as listed by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, and the 25 largest (by...

As Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) mature and as the literature describing and analyzing SWFs continues to develop, some of the primary concerns that initially animated SWF analysis — namely, SWFs as a sign of shifting financial power, SWFs as potential political actors, and the corresponding...