Finance & economics | Sovereign-stealth funds
Welcome to a new era of petrodollar power
What are the hundreds of billions of oil riches being spent on?
A pack of hungry headhunters has descended on Europe’s financial quarters. Over coffee in the mid-morning lull, they tempt staffers at blue-chip investment funds with tax-free jobs, golden visas and gorgeous vistas at the firms’ clients: sovereign-wealth funds in the Gulf.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “A new era of petrodollar power”
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