Conference on Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Investment Landscape: Building Trust

31 March 2008, London, United Kingdom

This event, co-hosted by the City of London and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the participation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided an opportunity for representatives of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), private financial institutions and recipient governments to share views on what steps SWFs and recipient governments can take to build mutual confidence and trust. 

The OECD is working with governments from recipient and emerging countries to help reconcile security concerns relating to SWFs with the goal of promoting freedom of investment, while also encouraging SWFs to take advantage of OECD guidelines for business conduct and IMF work. Conference participants will have an opportunity to learn about and contribute inputs to OECD and IMF projects.

Documentation

• Draft agenda
• Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Security, David Marchick, The Carlyle Group
• Wherefore Arabian SWFs?, Florence Eid, Pantera Capital

Further reading

• OECD work on preventing investment protectionism
• International investment of sovereign wealth funds
• International Investment Perspectives: Freedom of investment in a changing world, OECD, 2007
• OECD Declaration and Decisions on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises
• National Treatment Instrument
• OECD Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and of Current Invisible Operations