Oil decline is redefining role of sovereign wealth funds on February 19, 2017Aren’t sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) fascinating? These mega-investors have assets bigger than the gross domestic product (GDP) of many nations and can affect markets around the world with a single “buy” order, yet in many cases they are run as an arm of the state bureaucracy that owns them. They are the ultimate investing machines, […]
Is Citibank edging closer to a Saudi return? on December 19, 2016 Every autumn, Citibank, the American banking giant, gathers together a group of journalists from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at its headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf, and treats them to two days of on-the-record briefings on how Citi sees the world. I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited for the past two […]