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The Daily Brief

February 10, 2012

Today's news of note...

By Ashby Monk

Let's get straight to today's news, shall we: 

  • The Libya Investment Authority is apparently in the final stages of hiring its new Head.
  • Burkina Faso is reportedly planing a "social development fund" drawn from tax and royalty revenue from gold mining.
  • Vietnam's SCIC is setting up a new investment vehicle to make ‘direct investments in securities’.
  • The Temasek-Khazana JV for property development is set to raise $4 billion.
  • SOFAZ steps out of its comfort zone.
  • Kirill Dmitriev has a go at selling the Russian Direct Investment Fund to CNN.