Various Holdings
Country: Saudi Arabia
Established: N/A
US$ Billion: 300*
Origin: Oil
Transparency Rating: 4
Summary:
Some of the funds are managed by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which was established in 1952.
It is also rumored Saudi Arabia is planning to set up a new official sovereign wealth fund around just $6 billion to be headed by the Public Investment Fund.
In the year end of 2007, the SAMA had around US$ 319 billion in assets which US$ 211 billion were in foreign securities.
*US$ 300 billion was chosen as the AUM since that figure matched other institutional estimates.
News and Updates
2/1/2008
SAMA’s vice governor recently suggested that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was planning a new sovereign fund which would invest in foreign securities.
Location
P.O. Box 2992
Riyadh 11169
Saudi Arabia
Website
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Finance
Saudi Monetary Agency
1. All figures quoted are from official sources, or, where the institutions concerned do not issue statistics of their holdings, from other publicly available sources.
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