Sovereign wealth funds, SWFs, are investment vehicles owned by countries. Typically, they’re set up to manage state-owned assets, according to the Center for Global Development (CGD), a ...

Sovereign wealth funds are government-owned investment vehicles. They have the same purpose as private portfolios — namely, generating financial returns.

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC reported on Friday its slowest pace of investment return growth in five years, even as ...

A proposal to create such a fund has drawn bipartisan support in the Senate, but critics call it a dangerous gamble.

Over the last decade, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged as influential and active players across a range of global asset classes.

The largest fund in the world, Norway's government pension fund, is worth $1.7 trillion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Institute, an organization that tracks state-owned investment funds.

NO: Sovereign wealth funds are usually done when there is a government surplus. The U.S. currently has a huge deficit which could increase if the tax cuts due to expire are extended.

Translated into dollars the fund's crowns (spelled "krone" in Norway) per capita is about $161,660, said Michael Maduell, president of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

Critics of a US sovereign wealth fund point out that the US, far from having a surplus, runs trillion-dollar deficits — the opposite of the world's largest SWFs.

An American sovereign wealth fund is risky, but not crazy by Joshua R. Hendrickson and Alexander William Salter, opinion contributors - 02/13/25 7:30 AM ET Evan Vucci, Associated Press ...