An overview of Sovereign Wealth Funds’ (SWF) investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of the investments made by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), defined in this paper as the region encompassing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. The following analysis considers all investments made by the funds as of the end of July 2014 and is based on data from the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Transaction Database, the Sovereign Wealth Center and government official information. The aim of the chapter is to make an introduction to the following parts of this paper and to allow to estimate the potential political risks stemming from SWF investments.