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Ashby Monk, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Global Projects Center at Stanford University and a senior research associate at the University of Oxford, has been blogging about sovereign and pension funds since 2008. 

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January 18, 2012 at 12:00 AM EST


Hello, Stockholm. It's not cold enough here. What's the deal? Anyway, this just in:

  • Australia has set the rules governing SWF ownership of farmland and agri-business. 
  • The scale and pace of investment by Chinese entities in Africa is apparently picking up.
  • Korea's NPS will do a bit more international equities in house, but it will outsource more in other asset classes.
  • Temasek is selling out of Thailand's ShinCorp.
  • Lots of interesting news is coming out of the World Future Energy Summit. See this and this
  • Qatar Diar has signed a deal with Sri Lanka's Board of Investment to co-operate on real estate deals.
  • Khazanah seems to be building up a pile of cash. Will we start seeing the Malaysian SWF more active in the EU and US?
  • Is CalPERS selling its housing assets at the bottom of the real estate market? TBD.
  • The Kuwait Investment Authority and the Canada Pension Plan also received QFII licenses for China in December.
  • Aabar! Doubling down on UniCredit.
  • Qatar and Vietnam are looking to expand their investment ties. HH the Emir Sheikh al-Thani was in Hanoi yesterday.


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