Sovereign wealth: Getting creative on co-investment
Sovereign wealth funds are dialing up their direct exposure to technology and healthcare start-ups, but this trend is accompanied by a varied collection of co-investment models
The sovereign wealth funds of China and Russia make for odd yet strangely complementary bedfellows. China Investment Corporation (CIC) was established to diversify some of the country’s foreign exchange...
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