{"id":592970,"date":"2023-01-01T08:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/market-misery-deals-sovereign-wealth-funds-historic-setback-in-2022-study\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T14:51:45","slug":"market-misery-deals-sovereign-wealth-funds-historic-setback-in-2022-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/market-misery-deals-sovereign-wealth-funds-historic-setback-in-2022-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Market misery deals sovereign wealth funds historic setback in 2022 -study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Marc Jones<\/p>\n

LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Heavy falls in stock and bond markets over the last year have cut the combined value of the world\u2019s sovereign wealth and public pension funds for the first time ever \u2013 and to the tune of $2.2 trillion, an annual study of the sector has estimated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The report on state-owned investment vehicles by industry specialist Global SWF found that the value of assets managed by sovereign wealth funds fell to $10.6 trillion from $11.5 trillion, while those of public pension funds dropped to $20.8 trillion from $22.1 trillion.<\/p>\n

Global SWF\u2019s Diego L\u00f3pez said the main driver had been the \u201csimultaneous and significant\u201d 10%-plus corrections suffered by major bond and stock markets, a combination that had not happened in 50 years.<\/p>\n

It came as Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine boosted commodity prices and drove already-rising inflation rates to 40-year highs. In response, the U.S. Federal reserve and other major central banks jacked up their interest rates causing a global market sell-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are paper losses and some of the funds will not see them realized in their role as long-term investors,\u201d L\u00f3pez said. \u201cBut it is quite telling of the moment we are living.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report, which analysed 455 state-owned investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets, found that Denmark\u2019s ATP had had the toughest year anywhere with an estimated 45% plunge that lost $34 billion for Danish pensioners.<\/p>\n

Despite all the turbulence though, the money funds spent buying up companies, property or infrastructure still jumped 12% compared with 2021.<\/p>\n

A record $257.5 billion was deployed across 743 deals, with sovereign wealth funds also sealing a record number of $1 billion-plus \u201cmega-deals\u201d.<\/p>\n

Singapore\u2019s supersized $690 billion GIC fund topped the table, spending just over $39 billion in 72 deals. Over half of that was piled into real estate with a clear bias towards logistics properties.<\/p>\n

In fact, five of the 10 largest investments ever by state-owned investors took place in 2022, starting in January when another Singapore vehicle, Temasek, spent $7 billion buying testing, inspection and certification firm Element Materials from private equity fund Bridgepoint.<\/p>\n

In March, Canada\u2019s BCI then agreed to acquire 60% of Britain\u2019s National Grid Gas Transmission and Metering arm with Macquarie. Two months later, Italy\u2019s CDP Equity wealth fund spent $4.4 billion on Autostrade per l\u2019Italia alongside Blackstone and Macquarie.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf financial markets continue to fall in 2023, it is likely that sovereign funds will keep \u2018chasing elephants\u2019 as an effective way of meeting their capital allocation requirements,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

It tipped SWFs from the Gulf such as ADIA, Mubadala, ADQ, PIF, QIA to become much more active in buying up Western firms having received large injections of oil revenue money over the past year.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Marc Jones; Editing by Hugh Lawson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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