Sovereign wealth funds have been around for a long time.

Otherwise countries will deal with these sovereign wealth funds at a national level.

It is one of the world's smaller sovereign wealth funds.

A Chinese sovereign wealth fund is about to receive a further $50bn.

He said that there are sovereign wealth funds around the world who would be prepared to pay for the project.

He will also say that more money from the region's sovereign wealth funds would be welcomed.

The sovereign wealth fund owns a 1.7pc stake in the oil major.

The capital that sovereign wealth funds bring to the global market is needed to keep investment flowing.

There is still not complete clarity about the political involvement in these sovereign wealth funds.

However, just like private venture capital, sovereign wealth funds can cover up exactly who the entrepreneur is.

Sovereign wealth funds are predicted to grow at an increased rate in the near future, which should not scare us.

Asian investors, including sovereign wealth funds, accounted for 30pc of all deals.

The region's sovereign wealth funds have never disclosed the size of their assets nor losses.

Sovereign Wealth Funds are playing an increasingly important role in global trade and investment.

At the time, it was unprecedented for a non-commodity-based economy to have such a sovereign wealth fund.

Qatar has also established the largest per capita sovereign wealth fund in the world.

Four oil-exporting Gulf states saw their sovereign wealth funds lose $350bn (£220bn) between them last year as the financial crisis hit.

It was started by China's sovereign wealth fund.

A sovereign wealth fund financed by phosphate earnings was established in 1956.

Burke now works for the sovereign wealth fund of the Emirate as a high level advisor.

There are sovereign wealth funds around the world that would be only too happy to invest in significant long-term yield from a British airport.

The second event is of course the subprime crisis, which has shed light on the strategic role these sovereign wealth funds could play.

Neither do we at this time have any grounds for assuming that sovereign wealth funds are having a negative impact on exchange rates.

When it comes to reciprocity, I take the view that we should confine ourselves to the sovereign wealth funds.

We always want private investors, but we can require reciprocity from sovereign wealth funds.