Sovereign Wealth Quarterly Released – 2020 Annual Review
Posted on 01/02/2021
Sovereign Wealth Quarterly January 2021 Edition – 2020 Annual Review
The January edition is now online for subscribers to read.
To access, login into SWFI.com and go under REPORTS.
This is our 51st issue of the Sovereign Wealth Quarterly.
Key Stories
12 India vs China: Sovereign Wealth and Public Fund Foreign Direct Investments
14 Deep Dive with Lyazzat Borankulova, Managing Director for Strategic Development of Samruk-Kazyna
22 See Why Sovereign Wealth Funds are Betting on Clean Tech
24 2020 is a SPAC-Tacular Year for Sovereign Wealth Funds
30 Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund to Buy Stake in Borsa Istanbul
33 Norges Bank Investment Management Awards 3 Research Grants to Study Impact of Institutional Investor Ownership
See Why Sovereign Wealth Funds are Betting on Clean Tech
Posted on 12/24/2020
2021 is approaching and sovereign wealth funds are increasingly taking a deeper look into ESG investing and sustainable investments, particularly in renewable energy. Despite the gloomy coronavirus lockdowns, sovereign wealth funds continue to allocate mounds of capital into clean tech investments. Sovereign investors are backing both new green technologies, while supporting large-scale solar and wind power plants. Even though the majority of European and Gulf-based sovereign wealth funds derive their wealth from fossil fuels, there is a greater need for them to diversify into alternative energy as low oil prices continue to toil. Low oil prices have deeply impacted the budgets of Gulf economies, forcing them faster to rethink their old ways of doing things. For example, Saudi Arabia was forced to lower its budget plan for 2021 by 7% from this year’s. This was due to the coronavirus lockdowns, which imp