The United Arab Emirates are ranked second among the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds

The United Arab Emirates are ranked second among the world’s largest sovereign wealth  funds with its assets estimated  at 817 billion dollars (2013 March).  In addition,  the UAE placed third in the world from the point of sovereign wealth fund assets per capita – approximately 103. 5 thousand dollars ( 380 thousand AED).

These data are found within the report  of the “Council on Foreign Relations”, which  is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, including staff members from United States and other countries worldwide. The estimations whereby based the report, were made by Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

China is ranked first of the world’s largest sovereign wealth  funds for its assets reached 1.2 trillion dollars, however, placed the last for  sovereign wealth fund assets per capita estimated at only 904 dollars, as a result of huge number of population – 1.3 billion people, while Norway occupied the first place for amount of assets per capita of 144.5 thousand dollars, followed by Kuwait with its 121.4 thousand dollars.