Sentences with phrase «by sovereign wealth»

«The shine may be wearing off for high - end real estate investments by sovereign wealth funds, according to a new report, a consequence of perceived market frothiness and increased competition for property assets.

What it does do is inhibit those clubs spending disproportionately on transfer fees and wages and inflating costs for all other clubs not all of which are backed by sovereign wealth funds.

Olam, which is backed by sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, will lease - back the almond groves and land as well as related farming and irrigation infrastructure for a period of 18 years.

Not exact matches

The world's biggest solar project is going to get underway in Saudi Arabia, according a plan whipped up by the country's sovereign wealth fund and the Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank.

A big investment in Aramco by China's sovereign wealth fund has long been rumored, but never confirmed by the Saudis.

It will be developed by the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund, with the first work expected in two years.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has been appointed by the corporate watchdog to sell a portion of shares in Sovereign Gold Company held by former Applabs Technologies directors which were found to have been acquired invalidly.

The subject of a seven - year - long campaign by the association, its elimination removed administrative hurdles for foreign investment and raised hopes that venture capital from private and sovereign wealth funds would soon stream across the border to buoy Canadian startups.

Japan's SoftBank has signed a non-binding agreement with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to build «by far the biggest solar project ever.»

WESTERN Australia's relationship with China, infrastructure and a state sovereign wealth fund were among the big - picture topics addressed by Premier Colin Barnett at last week's WA Business News Success & Leadership Series Breakfast.

The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $ 93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

BIG AI DEAL: Element AI, a Montreal - based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $ 102 million ($ 137.5 M Canadian) in Series A funding led by DCVC with participation from BDC, Fidelity Investments, Hanwha, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Nvidia, Real Ventures, Tencent, and multiple sovereign wealth funds.

Recent public spending in top - ranked Norway has bolstered the nation's pension plans, helped in part by the country's massive sovereign wealth fund.

The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money.

Led by BPI France and Temasek Holdings, a number of top sovereign wealth funds have increased their healthcare investments over the past five years.

HONG KONG — In 2012, with help from Goldman Sachs, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad sold $ 3.5 billion worth of bonds backed by an Abu Dhabi government fund to help it purchase power plants.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

A civil complaint filed by Justice Department officials in the United States said that some of the funds landed in the hands of Mr. Najib's friends and associates as well as officials and executives from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.

American officials are trying to recoup more than $ 1 billion that they say was taken from 1MDB, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, and spent by family and friends of the country's prime minister, Najib Razak, pictured.

By the same token, he says, private equity firms face stiff competition from strategic buyers and a growing number of other financing options, including pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs).

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

Greater saving has been driven by increases in inequality and in the share of income going to the wealthy, increases in uncertainty about the length of retirement and the availability of benefits, reductions in the ability to borrow (especially against housing), and a greater accumulation of assets by foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Baillie Gifford, a UK based mutual fund, led Denali's Series B financing and was joined by several other major institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and private investors.

Henry VIII found a minister of great efficiency, Thomas Cromwell, driven by a twofold wish to rationalise and then close down or transform the religious houses, or to produce a useful adjunct of property and wealth to his sovereign, all things which he could see being done in the German lands.

Hassad Australia - backed by a Qatar sovereign wealth fund - is selling the first property it purchased in Australia over 6 years ago.

Little did anyone know that what Peter Obi called cash - in - hand were basically investment in stocks, bonds and other non-performing equities arranged by Obi in his final days in office; long - term uncompleted assets that will not earn cash until they are completed; various sums spent in rehabilitating federal roads in the State for which re-imbursements may come in the distant future; computation of the State's share of the Excess Crude Account contributed as capital to the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund in 2010, etc..

In Britain, infrastructure investment programmes are now prominent features of both the main political parties» programmes, while proposals for a universal citizen's income, a monthly payment to every citizen by right and the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to help cover the state's liabilities for vital public goods continue to gain traction.

Guy Standing's attempt to imagine a «Precariat Charter» to address inequalities of power and material insecurity in the contemporary labour market includes proposals for basic income and, as also suggested by Angela Cummine, to develop and use Sovereign Wealth Funds in a manner akin to a Citizens» Trust.

The government had by this point built up large reserves of foreign exchange to buffer against potential volatility, reduced annual inflation from 31 per cent in 2004 to 7,5 per cent a decade later, and established of a sovereign wealth fund to help diversify the economy.

Alaska is the only state in the world to pay its individual citizens an annual, equal income, known as the permanent fund dividend (PFD), and this «basic income» is financed by the investment returns of its sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF).

However, increased investment in the UK by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds has also raised doubts about interference in UK affairs.

A recent survey of 97 sovereign investors — which include sovereign wealth funds, state pension funds, central banks and government ministries collectively holding # 9 trillion of assets - by Invesco found they see the UK as a less attractive destination for investment.

Vice President Osinbajo is also challenged to boldly tell Nigerians how much was left by the Jonathan administration in the Sovereign Wealth Fund which the Jonathan government set up.

An April 2018 research paper from Sustainalytics titled, «Assault weapons: Assessing exposure to the firearms trade» co-written by Martin Vezer and Doug Morrow, found that Norway's $ 1.2 trillion U.S. sovereign wealth fund had recently sold its holdings in the three largest U.S. firearm producers, a decision its CEO suggested was based on investment (rather than ethical) issues.

Some sovereign wealth funds may be held by a central bank, which accumulates the funds in the course of its management of a nation's banking system; this type of fund is usually of major economic and fiscal importance.

The United States carries tremendous debts, much of it owned by foreigners and foreign governments, other countries» sovereign wealth funds are looking to acquire chunks of the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollars is the world's reserve currency primarily because of inertia rather than our economic strength, and we ship money abroad every day to buy plasma tvs and gasoline.

The oil sands [are], because now you're looking at a situation where the only long - duration oil that's still available and isn't tied up by governments and sovereign wealth funds and everything else is in the oil sands.»

The sovereign wealth fund helps Norway avoid some of the problems associated with the «resource curse» by investing capital abroad.

Likewise, Norway's sovereign wealth fund is considering divesting from oil and gas, despite the fund being supported by the country's vast oil reserves.

The report found that 688 institutions and more than 58,000 individuals across 76 countries are now committed to divestment, including major financial institutions such as the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund, owned by Norway, and Allianz and Aegon.

Advising one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds in respect of allegations of bribery made against it by the UK regulatory authorities in relation to investments valuing in excess of # 4.5 billion.

The report also examines: the merger of exchanges; the challenges faced by private equity and the hedge fund industry; as well as the importance of Sovereign Wealth Funds.

The Hong Kong consortium outbid the U.K. utility Scottish & Southern Energy and a consortium of other bidders headed by an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund and Canada Pension Plan, the WSJ says.

Moderated by Torys chairman Robert Prichard, the panel also discussed the perspective of future investments from sovereign wealth funds and issues relating to the corporate governance of public companies.

The platform includes tools such as virtual data rooms and project management applications so the service provider advisers can design and build and support sovereign wealth institutions that would be owned and controlled by the First Nations.

Trowers & Hamlins and Travers Smith have taken the lead roles on a property deal that has seen SJ Berwin's London headquarters acquired for # 165m by a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd is making its first investment in New Zealand real estate by forming a joint venture with Goodman Property Trust, the pair said in a statement on Monday.

According to the data from SEBI, the share of long - term funds such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds in total foreign institutional investor, or FII, inflows into Indian equities increased to 16 % in December 2013 from 9 % in May 2013 while in absolute terms, it incremented by $ 14 billion.

«Pension funds, family offices and sovereign wealth funds are run by sophisticated investors who aren't as interested in putting money into a gigantic fund,» he said.