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...

With trillions of dollars in assets, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play a major role in financial markets around the world. With billions (and probably well over a trillion) dollars' worth of equity investments around the world, the investment behavior of SWFs is of primary concern to...

Assets under management by public funds, including sovereign wealth funds and sovereign pension funds, continues to grow at a strong pace. As funds grow larger and new sovereign funds come into the market, the identification of suitable investments in an increasingly crowded marketplace become...

In a continuing low-interest rate environment that stifles fixed income returns, pension funds are under increasing pressure to produce strong returns from other asset classes, including alternative assets like interests in hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds. As private...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) vary widely in how they use external managers, but nearly all SWFs make significant use of external managers, particularly for alternative asset classes that are difficult to access or demand labor-intensive investment strategies, such as private equity, venture...

The economic impact of COVID-19 has been catastrophic for state and local governments. By Federal Reserve estimates, income and sales revenues will have declined by over $50 billion in fiscal year 2020 and may decline by as much as $137 billion in 2021. Pandemics are, of course, not the only...

This essay, prepared for the Georgetown Journal of International Law's 2009 symposium on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), considers SWF investment from a novel perspective: How do the external forces acting on sovereign wealth funds and target firms, such as recipient country public sentiment and...

The Public Funds Investment Policies Survey is an annual publication, now in its fifth year, which surveys the current investment policy disclosures of the 26 largest (by AUM) sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the world, as listed by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, and the 25 largest (by...

We examine how liquidity and return concerns at large mutual funds explain their diminished participation in small IPOs since the late 1990s. Using 5,825 IPOs and portfolio-level information for 37,052 funds, we exploit Russia's 1998 debt default as an exogenous shock to funds' liquidity...