Opportunities and Threats – the Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Financial Markets

Over the last 20 years, sovereign wealth funds have performed remarkably well and are now more widely popular, according to the latest White Paper published by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM). The authors Valeria Miceli, Professor of Economics of Financial Markets at the Catholic University of Milan, and Asoka Wöhrmann, CIO at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM), regard them as the richest source of capital support for financial markets. Thanks to their long-term investment horizon and higher risk exposure, sovereign wealth funds often behave as counter-