We introduce this special issue on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) with a discussion on the
four big themes currently affecting their behavior and performance:(1) the impact of recent …

State-owned investors (SOIs), including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds,
have $27 trillion in assets under management in 2020, making these funds the third largest …

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have over $11.5 trillion in assets under management as of
February 2023. Most of these 176 funds are sponsored by non-Western countries and their …

We examine the impact of political connections on the investment decisions of Chinese
mutual funds. We identify a direct link between mutual funds' political connections and …

Summary Sovereign Wealth Funds are government investment vehicles that have been
present for decades. They are usually characterized by minimum information disclosure …

The study specifically investigated the impact of sub-national government sovereign wealth
funds on the economic development of Nigeria. An ex-post research design was used for the …

This study uses hand‐collected information on shareholders' backgrounds of mutual funds
and their fund management companies (FMCs), and administrative and criminal penalties …

Research background: The ever-increasing degree of globalization is reflected, among
other things, in the establishment of relatively new institutional investors-sovereign wealth …

The rise of national industrial funding initiatives has brought governance challenges to the
fore amidst global semiconductor competition. As one of the first major national funds …

The specifics of using the mathematical toolkit Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze
the relative performance of state-owned companies have been discussed in the article. The …