Thursday 26 March 2009

Gulf SWFs to keep a low profile after slowdown

Heavy losses caused by the collapse of global markets will ally with the crash in crude prices to force Gulf state funds to slow down their investment push into the West and other countries, a key Saudi investment fund has said.

NCB Capital, an offshoot of the Saudi National Commercial Bank, said the sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) have received a severe blow from the global economic crisis as the bulk of their assets are based abroad.

It said the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), ranked as the world's largest SWF, and other government funds in the region, could have suffered as much as 30 per cent loss.

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