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Sovereign Wealth Funds: When Governments Become Players (1/2)

Last month, America's biggest bank, Citigroup, agreed to sell five percent of its shares to the government of Abu Dhabi. The deal, worth seven and a half billion dollars, was another example of growing investments by sovereign wealth funds. These are owned by governments. They are separate from the holdings of central banks. Sovereign wealth funds are estimated to hold more than two trillion dollars.

The largest is the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, established in nineteen seventy-six. The emirate does not say how much its fund is worth. Estimates are between five hundred billion and nine hundred billion dollars.

Most sovereign wealth funds are tied to money from oil exports. Oil prices reached a record high near one hundred dollars a barrel in November. Oil is traded in dollars. And dollars have been flowing into Gulf economies like Abu Dhabi. But there is a limit to how much money can be pumped into an economy without causing inflation to jump.

Brad Setser is a fellow for geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He notes that one problem facing these oil exporters is that their currency values are linked to the dollar, and the dollar has fallen.

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上个月，美国最大的银行-花旗集团，决定向阿联酋政府出售其5%的股份。这笔价值75亿美金的交易是主权财富基金不断增加投资的又一案例。这笔基金归政府所有并独立于中央银行的掌控。据估计主权财富基金持有超过20000亿美金的资金。
 
而主权财富基金中最大的部门是于1976年在阿布扎比由政府财政部成立的对外投资局。即使酋长也说不清具体这个基金有多大，据估计至少在5000亿美金到9000亿美金之间。
 
大多主权财富基金都与石油出口获得的利润紧密联系。11月油价已经升至创纪录的接近100美元/每桶。原油通过美元交易，美元源源不断的流入波斯湾经济圈内像阿布扎比这样的地区。但是对于多少热钱涌入经济体而不导致通货膨胀加剧有着相应的限制。
 
布拉德.塞特塞尔是外交协会驻纽约的地缘经济学家。他指出这些石油出口国目前面临的一个问题是他们的货币值与美元挂靠，但美元已经贬值。

        

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