TY - BOOK AU - Truman, Edwin M. TI - Sovereign wealth funds: threat or salvation? SN - 9780881324983 U1 - 332.67/252TRU PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, DC. PB - Peterson Institute for International Economics KW - Sovereign wealth funds N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index N2 - Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are not a new phenomenon in international finance. Governments of a few countries have used similar entities to manage their international financial assets for several decades. Moreover, countries have always held international reserves, and government-owned entities have made cross-border investments for many years. However, with the rapid increases in international reserve holdings and in revenues from the export of nonrenewable resources over the past decade, total holdings of international assets by SWFs have grown to at least ER -