The Daily Brief

Today’s news: - Cyprus asks the IMF for help with new SWF. - SOFAZ is unleashed. - Institutional investors’ appetite for venture capital may be growing. - Nigeria’s new SWF may finally get a management team. And more...

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Here now, the news:

  • Cyprus asks the IMF for help in designing a new SWF for looming gas revenues.
  • The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan has had many of its investment restrictions removed. Today, it can invest in real estate, gold, lira, rubles, junk, and plenty more...
  • The Investment Corporation of Dubai has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung Life to build a life insurance bus in the GCC and beyond.
  • Institutional investors’ appetite for venture capital may be growing.
  • What are the KIC, NPS and Korea Post up to these days? Read on.
  • Nigeria’s new SWF will finally get a management team in the next couple of weeks.
  • Brian Gibson – one of the gurus of ‘relationship investing’ -- is leaving AIMCo.

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