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The Major Role of Sovereign Investors in the Global Economy: A European Perspective

This article delves into the major role Sovereign Investors (both Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds) are playing in the global economy, taking a European perspective. These highly heterogenous funds, which hail from different backgrounds and vary in their structures and missions, ultimately have one common goal: to preserve capital and maximize the return on investment. Given today’s economic environment, marked by low interest rates across the Eurozone, the United States, and Japan and frequent quantitative easing, Sovereign Investors have turned to alternative asset classes – real estate, infrastructure, and private equities. The author explores each shift and the investment mechanisms employed in detail, halting to explore the opportunities for Europe in each case. He adds that SWFs offer a promising avenue for Europe in terms of human capital. This is particularly true after the crisis, with the goal of reversing the brain drain caused by the economic upset in mind.