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AR15.COM
11/22/2009 11:21:42 AM EDT
What exactly are they and how does one invest in them?
11/25/2009 6:49:31 PM EDT
[#1]
These are investment funds operated by a sovereign (aka a government).

The big ones are Arabic, but they include things like the Canadian Pension Plan (which just bought a chunk of IMS).

RF
11/27/2009 2:33:05 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
What exactly are they and how does one invest in them?

this article does a pretty good job:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund

that said, there is really no way for an individual investor to directly invest in a sovereign wealth fund; typically you would do this through a hedge fund, and generally you could only invest in a hedge fund as an "accredited investor":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

ar-jedi