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The Public Investment Fund (PIF; Arabic: صندوق الاستثمارات العامة) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of US$930 billion (£718.2 billion). [2]
A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a fund owned by a state (or a political subdivision of a federal state) composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds are entities that manage the national savings for the purposes of investment.
The term "sovereign wealth fund" was first used in 2005 by Andrew Rozanov in an article entitled, "Who holds the wealth of nations?" in the Central Banking Journal. [1] The previous edition of the journal described the shift from traditional reserve management to sovereign wealth management; subsequently the term gained widespread use as the spending power of global officialdom has rocketed ...
An index fund is a type of mutual fund that either buys all or a representative sample of securities in a specific index, such as the S&P 500. Instead of being actively managed by fund managers,...
An index fund (also index tracker) is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to follow certain preset rules so that it can replicate the performance ("track") of a specified basket of underlying investments. [1]
The Public Investment Fund was started in 1971, and has recently taken a more prominent role in Vision 2030: Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s push to diversify the country’s ...
[399] They began growing fairly rapidly in about 2004, [400] and as of 2014 there were 943 Islamic mutual funds worldwide and as of May 2015, they held $53.2 billion of assets under management, [401] with "latent demand" for considerable growth. [401] For equity mutual funds, companies whose shares are being considered for purchase must be screened
The National Development Fund (Saudi Arabia) (Arabic:صندوق التنمية الوطني) is a sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia that was established in October 4, 2017. The fund aims to advance the performance of development funds and banks in Saudi Arabia as well as empower development funds and banks to better fulfill development ...