Asia and Mideast eye US assets Reuters http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Investment/10224030.html Published: June 27, 2008, 00:07 Singapore: A wave of capital from the Middle East and Asia could be on its way into ailing US and European property markets, as a weak dollar and falling asset prices lure sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors. Since Japanese investors […]
Friends: Here is a link to my new article from The American Interest titled Sold Out: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Economic Security http://www.iags.org/Luft_TAI_SWF.pdf
Hat tip-Margo I. Sovereign Wealth Funds/SWF March 29, 2008 http://swfmoney.blogspot.com/2008/03/sovereign-wealth-fundsswf.html Government backed investment vehicles, total worth about $3 Trillion, growing fast thanks to high oil prices and surging Asian exports – deals and related Investors Name/country/size: 1. Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation – USA – $38 Billion 2. Government Pension Fund – Norway – $380 Billion […]
March 26, 2008 | Jules Evans | More on Global economy, Middle East | http://www.globaldashboard.org/global-economy/swfs-embarrassment-of-riches/ Record commodities prices have given countries like China, Singapore, Russia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and UAE control over trillions of dollars, which they have stowed away in sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), that are now hovering over the global financial system like mighty hoovers, sucking […]
http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Banking_and_Finance/10219551.html Banking and Finance By Mark Kleinman and Katherine Griffiths, The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2008. Published: June 08, 2008, 23:39 Executives at Barclays, Britain’s third-largest bank, are in advanced talks with overseas government-backed funds to secure a capital injection of more than £3 billion. The lender has stepped up talks with […]
Ahead of the Bell: Congress and foreign gov’t funds By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 06.05.08, 6:20 AM ET WASHINGTON – Sovereign wealth fund investment in the United States, which sparked controversy on Capitol Hill earlier […]
Shariah-compliant investable assets in the GCC and Far East have reached $267 billion, said Ernst & Young in its Islamic Funds and Investments Report.At the end of March 2008, there were more than 500 Shariah-compliant funds in the world, 153 of which were established in 2007 alone, it said. According to the report, the total […]
http://tinyurl.com/57ppdp In the post-colonial arena following the advent of World War II on the African continent, the cultural line of demarcation has become the Arabic Islamist North – littoral Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco – and the mostly Animist and partially Christian central and sub-Saharan south. However, despite the Arabic history of slave-trading and […]
http://www.zawya.com/printstory.cfm?storyid=ZAWYA20080526070646&l=070600080526 Wed, May 28, 2008, 01:35 GMT $4 Trillion in Middle Eastern Capital Available for Investment A.T. Kearney report highlights the role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the region and in western countries Dubai, 26 May 2008 -A new report from A.T Kearney, a global strategic management consulting firm, reveals that […]
Wealth task force looks for answers Wayne Arnold http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080524/BUSINESS/222500960/1005&profile=1005 Last Updated: May 24. 2008 10:47PM UAE / May 24. 2008 6:47PM GMT Jim Moran, the US representative in charge of the group. AP ABU DHABI // A US Congressional delegation led by a task force on sovereign wealth funds is due to land in […]
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=74697 MAS Announces Initiative To Develop Singapore Dollar Sovereign-Rated Sukuks 23/05/08 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that it will develop a facility to make available sovereign-rated sukuks to promote the further growth of Islamic finance and to meet the needs of financial institutions conducting Shariah-compliant activities in Singapore. 2. Speaking at […]
This article is trying to stop the West from asking for more transparency and due diligence. This is a big problem, the lack of the transparency from soverign wealth funds. Read this article, and understand how the promotion of Islamic Finance is a threat to demcracy. This is the silent Jihad. This is how we […]
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=215918&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28 EU presses State funds more than US – Dubai Publish Date: Thursday,1 May, 2008, at 02:51 AM Doha Time Ahmed bin Sulayem DUBAI: Europe is pressuring sovereign wealth funds more than the US and may be discriminatory in enacting new investment rules, said the chairman of Dubai World, an investment group with assets of […]
hat tip-Margo I. Arab Fund May Snatch GM Building April 4, 2008 By JULIE SATOW, STAFF REPORTER OF THE SUN http://www2.nysun.com/article/74219 A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund is hovering over the leading bid for the General Motors Building, waiting for a chance to snatch up the iconic tower. Deutsche Bank and Harry Macklowe are plugging […]
Firms flock (like sheep) to Middle East “Oasis” fueled by oil wealth and cash rich soverign funds
On April 3, 2008 · In Islam, Islamic Banking, Islamic Bonds, Islamic Economics, Islamic Equity Funds, Islamic Finance, Islamic Index, Islamic Law, Shariah Bonds, Shariah Finance, Shariah Law, Sovereign Wealth Funds
http://www.financialnews-us.com/?fuseaction=reg.singleform&contentid=2450217363 www.financialnews-us.com Firms flock to the Middle East oasis Oliver Smiddy 03 Apr 2008 As western Europe and North America suffer from large deal drought, the Middle East offers an oasis of liquidity. But unlike previous oil-driven booms, which proved to be blips, this year could see a turning point in the Middle Eastern investment […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=25790 HUMAN EVENTS America for Sale Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Posted 04/01/2008 ET Updated 04/01/2008 ET As the U.S. and Western markets plummet and the U.S. dollar continues its free fall, sovereign wealth funds (SWF) gobble up prime financial institutions, industries and real estate in the U.S. and the West. Given concerns […]
http://www.thetrump et.com/index. php?q=4976. 3245.0.0 U.S. Blind to Economic Jihad March 25, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com hat tip-Osint America should welcome capital investments from sovereign wealth funds, President George W. Bush asserted on March 14. “It’s our money to begin with,” he claimed, referring to the $95 trillion in the pockets of opec states, “[and it] […]
The Terror Finance Blog Burning the candle at both ends Posted: 23 Mar 2008 09:57 PM CDT With the U.S. economy “obviously going through a tough time,” America should welcome capital investments even from foreign sovereign wealth funds, President George W. Bush asserted on March 14, 2008 at New York’s Economic Club.“It’s our money to […]
Cash-loaded Gulf goes shopping, buys American assets (Hat tip-Margo I.) Wilf Dinnick March 21, 2008 CNN http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cashloaded-gulf-goes-shopping-buys-american-assets/61695-2.html SPENDING SPREE: CEO Mubadala Development Company Khaldoon Mubarak claims their buying is commercially driven. Dubai: The American economy may be in the midst of a financial crisis, but in the Middle East, oil-rich states are flush with cash. […]
Securities & investment banking www.financialnews-us.com Abu Dhabi/SWF code 18 Mar 2008 Abu Dhabi outlines investment code for sovereign fund The Wall Street Journal Abu Dhabi, home to the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has pledged it will not use its money to further its political aims, amid a backlash against overseas investments by government funds. In a three-page […]
www.fxstreet.com Emerging Markets Weekly European sovereign credits have been underperforming in the recent stress times Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:27 GMT by Erste Bank Bond Research Team Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG EUROPE European sovereign credits have been underperforming in the recent stress times. Independent of fundamentals such as indebtedness and budget deficits, the […]
Dubai aims new fund at the West By Louise Armitstead and James Hall Last Updated: 1:27am GMT 16/03/2008 Dubai, the oil-rich Gulf state, has launched a new multi-billion pound sovereign wealth fund as it looks to extend its reach in the global economy. News and analysis on the UK and world economy The fund, which will […]
ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: ALLYSON ROWEN TAYLOR Shariah Finance-The Quiet Jihad http://atlasshruggs2000-typekey.com Allyson Rowen Taylor, a leading expert on Shariah Financing, files this latest exclusive report on the economic jihad on West. Atlas, you first, your last, your everything on the war on the jihad.Shariah Finance-The Quiet Jihad Allyson Rowen Taylor Terrorism has many faces. […]
(MENAFN – Bahrain Tribune) With the current outstanding volume of global sukuk market is estimated in excess of $120 billion, the Islamic debt and capital markets are set for huge growth over the next few years.The existing size of the market is projected to further increase to over $200 billion in the next […]
Dubai: Citi May Need More Cash by Jeffrey Cane Mar 4 2008 S.W.F.’s differ over bank investments. Asked about the billions of dollars invested in Citigroup by rival sovereign wealth funds and Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, Sameer al-Ansari, the British-educated chief executive of Dubai International Capital, told a private equity conference […]
Buffett Weighs In on Dollar’s Decline, Sovereign Wealth Funds www.researchrecap.com Warrren Buffett can usually be depended upon to tell it like it is, or at least as he sees it (most often the same thing). This year’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders does not disappoint in this respect. Amid the discussion of the company’s […]
Khaleej Times Online >> News >> BUSINESS Dubai companies now have to ‘think global’ BY MARK T. TOWNSEND (Business Editor) 3 March 2008 xfile=data/business/2008/March/business_March53.xml§ion=businessxfile=data/business/2008/March/business_March53.xml§ion=business DUBAI — Marking the inaugural event of the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), the ICD Chairman’s Awards were launched… on Saturday under the patronage and in the presence of His Highness […]
Middle East Forum March 1, 2008 MEF Home <http://www.meforum.org> | Research & Writings <http://www.meforum.org/docs> | Middle East Quarterly http://www.meforum.org/meq/ Hat Tip-Rachel E. Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investment Vehicles for the Persian Gulf Countries by Nimrod Raphaeli and Bianca Gersten Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008, pp. 45-53 http://www.meforum.org/article/1863 Countries have used sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) […]
UK, Indonesia, HK to launch sovereign sukuk by December Publish Date: Thursday,28 February, 2008, at 01:24 AM Doha Time DUBAI: The United Kingdom, Indonesia and Hong Kong governments are each set to launch their debut sovereign Islamic bonds, or sukuk, by December this year, helping build benchmarks for a market that could be worth as […]
hat tip-margo I. Bayh: Sovereign Funds Serious Risk to U.S. February 13, 2008 Money News.com http://www.moneynews.com/money/archives/st/2008/2/13/115915.cfm?s=st Evan Bayh, the Indiana Democrat and chairman of the Senate’s banking subcommittee on security and international trade and finance, this week urged Congress to enact formal rules on sovereign wealth funds.Sovereign funds — money pools controlled by foreign governments […]
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