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1 online resource (x, 251 pages) |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Peril and Potential for America -- CHAPTER 1 The Sovereign Wealth Funds of Nations -- CHAPTER 2 Birth of a Sovereign Wealth Fund: The China Investment Corporation -- CHAPTER 3 Investing Like a Sovereign Wealth Fund -- CHAPTER 4 Evaluating Sovereign Wealth Funds -- CHAPTER 5 Trust but Verify -- CHAPTER 6 Take the Money and Run -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T |
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In this book, an expert in the field explains why the United States is the world's largest debtor nation and how America's relationship to creditor states is of growing economic, diplomatic, and even national security concern. Foreign countries are not merely investing in U.S. corporations but are purchasing them outright: Abu Dhabi bought Citigroup securities, Kuwait purchased a large block Merrill Lynch stock, and China bought Morgan Stanley's convertible securities-and this happened before the September 2008 meltdown of Wall Street. The means by which wealthy foreign states make these purchases are sovereign wealth funds, their surplus capital that they are seeking to invest in order to generate the greatest return. Currently, the largest sovereign wealth funds are held by the United Arab Emirates (of which Abu Dhabi is part), Norway, Singapore, Kuwait, and the People's Republic of China; Qatar and Libya are also in the top ten. The United States has no such fund (although the state of Alaska does). This book takes a close look at China's and Norway's sovereign wealth funds to explain how they work. The author also uses domestic examples (Harvard's endowment, the California's state employees' retirement fund) to propose how the United States could create a sovereign wealth fund, speculating that such a fund could solve the looming Social Security funds shortfall. Most important, the book elucidates the national security aspects of not having an American sovereign wealth fund when so many other nations-both friend and foe-have them |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-248) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Sovereign wealth funds -- United States
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Investments, Foreign -- United States
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Debts, External -- United States
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National security -- United States.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Debts, External
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Investments, Foreign
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National security
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Sovereign wealth funds
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Innere Sicherheit
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Auslandsinvestition
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Auslandsschulden
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0313366144 |
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9780313366147 |
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9780313366130 |
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0313366136 |
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