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...

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...

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...

On March 8, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved the creation of a West Virginia “Future Fund,” the latest in a series of North American sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) created in recent decades. Following a model used by other states and provinces, under the West Virginia legislation,...

In 2007, the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Investment in the United States Act (FINSA), the most recent in a series of calibrations to a basic regulatory framework that is now nearly 40 years old. FINSA has particularly significant effects on investment by sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and...

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...

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...