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Sovereign Wealth LP

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What the role involves

  1. 01

    At GIC, the investment objective is to achieve the owner's return objective within owner-set risk tolerance.

    objective

  2. 02

    NBIM's external-management function selects managers through investment and integrity due diligence and monitors their mandates continuously.

    responsibility

  3. 03

    NBIM continuously monitors external mandates for performance, cost, benchmark-relative risk, and manager integrity.

    task

  4. 04

    NBIM manager selection includes reviewing investment philosophy, organizational structure, process, and risk management and conducting site meetings.

    task

What shapes the decisions

  1. 01

    At GIC, the government owner does not direct individual investment decisions.

    authority

  2. 02

    At GIC, the owner sets mandate and risk parameters, the Board owns portfolio accountability, and management executes strategies and transactions.

    authority

  3. 03

    Direct and co-investment participation is constrained by staff depth, experience, and institutional decision speed.

    constraint

  4. 04

    External mandates must remain inside higher-level mandate, strategy, risk, and contractual limits.

    constraint

  5. 05

    NBIM evaluates external managers on philosophy, organization, investment process, and risk management.

    decision criterion

  6. 06

    NBIM external-manager relationships require acceptable fees, access and audit rights, and governance and sustainability expectations.

    decision criterion

  7. 07

    External-mandate details are not uniformly public and may be confidential.

    disclosure sensitivity

  8. 08

    NBIM evaluates external-manager trust through integrity diligence and recurring controls, not performance alone.

    trust concern

Who they work with

  1. 01

    External asset managers are counterparties to sovereign-wealth professionals allocating through mandates.

    counterparty

  2. 02

    Private-market fund managers and transaction sponsors are counterparties for fund commitments and co-investments.

    counterparty

  3. 03

    A sovereign wealth fund is a government-created investment vehicle established for macroeconomic purposes that manages assets toward financial objectives and holds some foreign financial assets.

    organizational context

  4. 04

    Sovereign wealth funds vary materially in their government relationships, governance structures, and mandates.

    organizational context

  5. 05

    A need for specialist local-market or company knowledge can trigger consideration of an external mandate.

    trigger

Tools and vocabulary

  1. 01

    An external investment mandate and manager agreement define scope, controls, fees, access, and audit rights.

    artifact

  2. 02

    Due-diligence records, manager questionnaires, monitoring reports, and Board reports are artifacts in the external-management lifecycle.

    artifact

  3. 03

    Natural terms include external mandate, segregated account, policy portfolio, risk tolerance, co-investment, and direct investment.

    terminology

  4. 04

    NBIM uses segregated accounts to obtain daily trading transparency and control over externally managed assets.

    tool

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