Managers of Wealth

ORTEL: Create an American sovereign wealth fund

Americans as a group are addicted to borrowing and to maintaining extraordinarily high debt balances.

The famed custom tailors of Savile Row have a new landlord

The Pollen Estate holds a collection of 43 properties in a fashionable area of low-rise buildings whose value seems to be ever increasing.

Carlyle scoops up capital from sovereign funds, wealthy individuals

These investors helped drive Carlyle’s fundraising across strategies in the second quarter to $7.4 billion, and $23.1 billion in the last 12 months

Sovereign Funds a Key Driver of Institutional Real Estate Demand

More and more sovereign wealth funds and foreign pension investors are buying up core real estate.

Biggest Wealth Fund Forms New Real Estate Group

The new executives will have key roles in implementing a new organizational structure

Norway’s $880 Billion Wealth Fund to Target Frontier Markets

New frontier markets will be added to our equity investments

Middle East investors eye old Scotland Yard hotel plans

Plans to turn Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall, into a luxury hotel have attracted Middle East buyers

The march of the sovereigns

Sovereign wealth funds, typically set up by oil-exporting nations, have been around for decades, in the case of Kuwait since 1953.

Norway’s $33 Billion Man Steps Up Search in Asia Real Estate Bet

Karsten Kallevig, the head of real estate at the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, has at least $33 billion to spend.

Norges Bank awards Asean mandates: sources

The portfolios are unlikely to be fully invested as yet

Kuwaitis team up with Church of England for stake in RBS spin-off bank Williams & Glyn

The consortium is being led by Corsair Capital, a private equity fund whose vice-chairman Lord Davies was Trade Minister under Gordon Brown.

Norway picks Citi as custodian of wealth fund over JPMorgan

While the loss of Norway's oil fund as a client is a disappointment, the bank hopes to win at least two similar- sized mandates in the near future.

top investment executive at Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund said to Start Hedge Fund

The fund will be one of relatively few based and focused on the Middle East, with offices in both Qatar and Dubai. Goldman Sachs is expected to act as its prime broker.

Biggest Wealth Fund Put on Review for Move to New Asset Classes

Investors Could Be Their Own Kings of Pain

Sovereign wealth & pension funds top investors among global funds that bet on Indian equities

Sovereign wealth funds emerged as the top investors among global funds that bet on Indian equities last year, indicating strong faith in the long-term prospects of the Indian economy that's currently in a slump and yet to show definitive signs of a r

New Insider Service From Institutional Investor's Sovereign Wealth Center

Institutional Investor's Sovereign Wealth Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Insider, a new forecasting service designed to give our clients a competitive advantage in working with sovereign wealth funds

Qatar wealth fund says keen on new UK investments

Britain is one of our major destinations of our investment, It has a great system with great regulations.

Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Coming Home

Traditionally, economists have advised countries where oil, gas or mineral reserves are discovered to invest extractives revenues abroad, ensuring a continuous future revenue stream from the return on accumulated foreign assets.

Why Norwegians Are Millionaires and Americans Are Paupers

That surge in the fund, called the Government Pension Fund Global, theoretically makes each of Norway's 5,096,300 people a millionaire in crowns.

BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI) Quarterly Update

With the addition of two emerging economies: Nigeria and Ukraine, the BSRI now tracks sovereign credit risk in a total of 50 countries