This book provides you with a comprehensive overview about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a book about the production process, you learn about key issues found in the...

Sovereign investors are an emerging community of investment organizations, subject to the conflicting demands of international and domestic institutions. Existing research interprets them either as mirroring global financialization or preserving national interests. Both top-down global...

Over the past few decades, the institutional logics of the capitalist market and the bureaucratic state have been pushed into association at an increasing rate through processes we have come to know as ‘globalization' and ‘financialization'. The power of financial markets threatens...