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July 17, 2008

Capital Flows
So a Gulf sovereign fund still has 60% of its assets in dollars? And SAFE is a SWF ...

My initial reaction to Henny Sender’s front page FT article was probably the opposite of most. I wasn’t all that surprised that sovereign funds are reducing their dollar exposure -- though cutting …

June 11, 2008

China
Should SAFE be considered a SWF?

SAFE is China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange. It enforces China’s capital controls -- and manages the foreign exchange reserves of China’s central bank. Lately though it hasn’t necessa…

May 5, 2008

China
Chinese state investment abroad: familiar or something new?

Henny Sender has an excellent account of China’s decision not to allow the China Development Bank (CDB) to invest in Citibank in January in Monday’s Financial Times. It follows on Richard McGregor…

July 7, 2007

Emerging Markets
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority secrets revealed …

Thanks to Henny Sender of the Wall Street Journal.    One reason why the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has gotten so big so fast is that it had (and still has) a lot of money invested in emer…

July 25, 2007

Financial Markets
Kuwait revalues (again)

And this time it let the dinar rise by a bit more than in the past.   1.7% is a lot more than the dinar moved the last two times (0.4% and 0.7%).  Monica Malik of EFG-Hermes: ``They're revaluing beca…