“This crisis places an extra pressure on our group to have increased coordination and greater cooperation,” Bader al-Saad, managing director of Kuwait’s sovereign fund, Kuwait Investment Authority, said at the opening session.
Sovereign wealth funds bought stakes in many big banks including UBS, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch to help bale them out during last year’s credit crunch but the funds’ overall values have plunged amid sharp falls in stock market indexes.
“Today, the whole world has entered into a new era, an era dominated by politicians leading the markets. This will impact the future of the markets,” Saad told the conference of the International Working Group (IWG) of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
“We will see more regulated and controlled markets. We will see more nationalisations and greater protectionism. Over-regulation will lead to deficiencies in the markets. We hope this will be temporary,” he said.
Founded a year ago by funds in 23 countries, the IWG has finalised a code of ethics, known as the Santiago Principles, in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, to promote transparency.
The IWG held three meetings last year, culminating in October in Santiago, Chile, where they approved the Generally Accepted Principles and Practices (GAPP) of Sovereign Wealth Funds, also known as the Santiago Principles.
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