China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Dips its Toes in U.K. Water
U.K. Chancellor George Osborne is making headway in a campaign to bring some Asian excitement to his country’s more boring assets.
Citi Wins Case Over Soured Abu Dhabi Investment
Citigroup won the arbitration case over Abu Dhabi's $7.5 billion investment in the bank, which the state's giant sovereign-wealth fund had looked to scrap.
Meet Goldman’s ‘Rock Star’ in Libya
Meet Driss Ben-Brahim, the Arabic-speaking, lavishly paid former chief of Goldman Sachs's emerging markets trading, and a central attraction of the bank's unusual financial dealings with the Libyan government.
What horrors lie inside the Gaddafi fund
You’ve read the FT story – now see the document unearthed by Global Witness:We’ll go through it later but needless to say, it confirms FT Alphaville’s...
Libyan crude, liberated?
On Monday, Qatar gave diplomatic recognition to Libya’s rebels.On Saturday — Qatar Petroleum had agreed to market Libyan oil controlled by the rebels to international buyers....
Sovereign wealth, a Gulf ‘supply chain’ risk
As the jackboot comes down hard in Bahrain on Wednesday, it’s worth asking what happened to the ‘modern’ ambitions of the Gulf monarchies who are providing military,...
The great Gaddafi cash call
By this point, the assets of the Libyan Investment Authority are frozen in just about every major financial jurisdiction. Except, of course, Libya.So, a quick question. Is a...
Navigating the Gaddafi asset freeze
Underlining the complexity of managing the Gaddafi financial asset freeze on Friday, HM Treasury has carved out an exception for any traders dealing with ‘non-Libyan financial...
Plunge protection teams, New Egypt edition
On a less than glorious day for MENA sovereign wealth funds…FT Alphaville’s Cairo agent sends this newspaper clipping our way:It’s a report on the Egyptian...
