A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a state-owned investment fund composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property, precious metals or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally. (Data source: www.swfinstitute.org)
City/ Country: UAE – Abu Dhabi
Fund Name: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Assets size: $627bn
Inception: 1976
City/ Country: Norway
Fund Name: Government Pension Fund – Global
Assets size: $611bn
Inception: 1990
Photo by gcardinal from Norway (Stortinget, Oslo, Norway) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]
City/ Country: China
Fund Name: SAFE Investment Company
Assets size: Estimated $567.9bn
Inception: 1997
(Photo by Lo Ka Fai/China Photos/Getty Images)
City/ Country: Saudi Arabia
Fund Name: SAMA Foreign Holdings
Assets size: Estimated 532.8bn
(Photo by REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed)
City/ Country: China
Fund Name: China Investment Corporation
Assets size: $439.6bn
(Getty Images)
City/ Country: Kuwait
Fund Name: Kuwait Investment Authority
Assets size: $296bn
[Photo by Danny Smitherman (originally posted to Flickr as Kuwait) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]
City/ Country: China – Hong Kong
Fund Name: Hong Kong Monetary Authority Investment Portfolio
Assets size: $293.3bn
[Photo by Alan Mak (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons]
City/ Country: Singapore
Fund Name: Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
Assets size: $247.5bn
(Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
City/ Country: Singapore
Fund Name: Temasek Holdings
Assets size: $157.2bn
(AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN)
City/ Country: Russia
Fund Name: National Welfare Fund
Assets size: $149.7bn*
*This includes the oil stabilization fund of Russia. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
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