(July 4, 2013) — The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has produced an interactive map, detailing where the world’s government-backed investors reside.
The map also illustrates which funds are oil and gas dominated, such as those in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Norway.
Asia dominates the non-oil and gas sovereign wealth fund (SWF) locations, with China alone holding more than $1.2 trillion across four funds.
Hong Kong has an additional $326.7 billion, and Singapore’s two SWFs (the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Temasek Holdings) hold $405 billion together.
Africa meanwhile, has collectively amassed $155.95 billion, predominantly in oil and gas SWFs.
The full map can be seen here.
In other SWF news, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar’s former prime minister, has been replaced as head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the new emir who took over after his father’s abdication in June, handed the top job at Qatar Investment Authority to Ahmad Al Sayed.
Sayed, a 37-year-old lawyer has been chief executive of Qatar Holding–the fund’s direct investment arm–for the past four years.
Bankers told the Financial Times the changes reflected the new emir’s goal of divorcing politics and economics after a tumultuous period that has seen Qatar grown in global prominence as an investor and a controversial player in the Arab uprisings.
Speaking about Sayed’s promotion, a senior banker based in Dubai told the FT: “He’s experienced – and there aren’t too many with those credentials in Doha.”
Sayed is best known for his work on deals such as the purchase of Harrods in 2010, and more recently the mega-merger of Xstrata and Glencore.
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