The Wealth of Nations: SWFs and Their Impact on Economic Growth

The Wealth of Nations: SWFs and Their Impact on Economic Growth

2 June, 10:15–11:30

The trend towards setup and development of sovereign wealth funds has been gaining momentum in the last few years. In 2016, the total value of all states’ sovereign funds exceeded USD 7 trillion. Sovereign funds play an important role in ensuring global financial stability and macroeconomic regulation. How can we evaluate the impact of sovereign funds on the global economy? Can sovereign funds drive national economic growth? Should cash lie still in funds or be put to work? How can we ensure transparent and efficient use of sovereign fund resources?













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Key moments

What we are doing is working together. This is how nations can work together beyond politics, beyond boundaries.
Mahmood H. Alkooheji
Chief Executive Officer, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
When we talk about infrastructure, it is not only the classic one. It is much wider: it is education, healthcare, telecommunication. It is what people need every day.
Mahmood H. Alkooheji
Chief Executive Officer, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
I believe we have to be very transparent. We need to be audited, we need to publish our account, we need to publish statement. Everybody needs to know what we are doing. It is building trust across nation and within a nation.
Mahmood H. Alkooheji
Chief Executive Officer, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
One of our most successful partnerships is with RDIF, here in Russia. Together we have deployed a billion dollars across co-investments, across multiple asset classes and sectors. And it’s a fantastic broad-based way to get a lot of exposure into economy of Russia, that we think has a tremendous amount.
Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi
Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Alternative Investments and Infrastructure, Mubadala Investment Company
Europe is built on concept of an open society, free trade, free movement of capital. We see that the potential for growth now is in modernisation of infrastructure in developed countries and in the growth of the emerging countries. So we need to outreach to the emerging countries.
Laurent Vigier
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, CDC International Capital
We all are pretty much on the same boat of the global economy. And we are interested to make sure it moves forward. Some of our funds can be used to bring nations closer.
Kirill Dmitriev
Chief Executive Officer, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)
Japan has an ageing society and its population is shrinking. Therefore, we need more demand outside Japan, but it is not just only export. We are going to deploy the investment and we encourage the transport technologies.
Tadashi Maeda
Chief Executive Officer, Executive Managing Director, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
Ultimately, when we deploy capital, it is about either diversifying the economy of Abu-Dhabi or furthering partnership, whether it is in North America, Asia, here in Russia or other places.
Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi
Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Alternative Investments and Infrastructure, Mubadala Investment Company