Singapore's sovereign wealth funds : the political risk of overseas investments

• Main Author: Wu, Friedrich
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104393; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4542
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to examine Singapore's two sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)-the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC) and Temasek Holdings (Temasek)-and the political risks which they are exposed to in their overseas investments. We argue that Temasek has hitherto exposed itself t...