If you think BlackRock’s ESG is bad, why invent a mightier tool for political interference in markets?

President Trump signed an executive order last week to create a sovereign wealth fund — something previously decried by both market-oriented conservatives and corporate-skeptic progressives.

While details of the proposed “sovereign wealth fund” aren’t due until early May, alarms should already be ringing in Congress. Exactly what problem the administration is trying to solve is ...

Indonesia, the Philippines and the city of Hong Kong all recently launched new funds. Now Trump's U.S. wants one too.

President Trump signed an executive order to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund on Feb. 3. AFP via Getty Images Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a ...

President Trump’s executive order calling for creating a U.S. sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a shiny object looking for a useful function. The idea that Washington should set up an investment ...

Joseph Bankman is the Ralph M. Parsons professor of law and business at Stanford Law School. Mark P. Gergen is the Robert and Joann Burch D.P. professor of tax law and policy at the University of ...

Increasingly, though, Trump is veering in Malaysia’s direction with his plan to create a sovereign wealth fund. Investors’ PTSD is being triggered as Trump risks orchestrating his own ...

WASHINGTON – The sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that US President Donald Trump wants to create will likely be weaponised in America’s escalating geostrategic rivalry with China. It is still to be ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to create a sovereign wealth fund, similar to those of nations in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. The funds, which typically use ...

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is opening up its long/short equity hedge funds allocations to external asset managers for the first time. Norges Bank Investment Management ...

Sovereign wealth funds are becoming the hottest thing in global finance. Indonesia launched its second state investment fund, the Daya Anagata Nusantara Investment Management Agency, or Danantara ...