Let's get straight to today's news, shall we:
- The Libya Investment Authority is apparently in the final stages of hiring its new Head.
- Burkina Faso is reportedly planing a "social development fund" drawn from tax and royalty revenue from gold mining.
- Vietnam's SCIC is setting up a new investment vehicle to make ‘direct investments in securities’.
- The Temasek-Khazana JV for property development is set to raise $4 billion.
- SOFAZ steps out of its comfort zone.
- Kirill Dmitriev has a go at selling the Russian Direct Investment Fund to CNN.