Sovereign direct investments in Asia hit record in 2021: IFSWF review
Asian consumer companies received the majority of the total capital deployed by sovereign wealth funds throughout a record-breaking year of direct investments.
In 2021 the number of direct investments made by sovereign wealth funds reached a record number, jumping to 429 in 2021 from 316 in 2020, a 50% increase year-on-year, according to data from the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF).
The total value of those direct investments also climbed to $71.6 billion in 2021, eclipsing the $67.8 billion of cash deployed by sovereign funds in 2020.
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