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Eni profit falls due to dip in oil prices

Q2 net profit fell by 18% to $637 million.

Emirates NBD H1 profit $3.40bn

Total income rose by 12 percent in the same period.

ADIB H1 pre-tax profit $1.08bn

Q2 pre-tax net profit increases by 14 percent.

AstraZeneca to invest $50bn in US

Bulk of funds to go into a Virginia manufacturing center.

UAB net profit up by 50% for H1

Total assets increase by 11 percent.

Eight biggest GCC sovereign wealth funds

The Arab world's largest sovereign wealth funds.
  • More than $1.3 trillion of funds are managed by some of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the GCC.
  • These funds invest in global real estate, financial assets, bonds and private equities.

How do governments deal with budgetary surpluses or the situations in which they have little or no international debt and it isn’t desirable to hold excess liquidity as money or to spend it immediately?

They invest it in global real estate, private equities, bonds and financial assets through Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs).

The Gulf Cooperation Council region is home to some of the wealthiest economies and individuals. An estimated $1.3 trillion of this wealth is managed by several state-owned sovereign wealth funds.

TRENDS brings to you the eight biggest of these funds in the region.