Green Sovereign Wealth

Despite the need for increased transparency in sovereign-wealth funds' operations, their value as long-term investors should not be underestimated. By shifting investment toward low-carbon, environmentally friendly infrastructure projects, SWFs could achieve their primary objective: the transfer of wealth to future generations.

PARIS – At the end of 2011, sovereign-wealth funds’ assets under management amounted to $3 trillion, following 237 direct investments worth $81 billion that year. Some experts even estimate SWFs’ assets to be worth $6 trillion. This means that SWFs, the avatars of state capitalism, are now twice as rich as the world’s hedge funds, the totems of liberal capitalism’s excesses.

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