Join Harvard's Davis Center for a talk on the reasons why some states create sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) while others do not. 

SWFs are state-controlled pools of assets that are created to grow a state's base of sovereign wealth. The rise of SWFs has caused concern about the direction of capitalism. However, not every SWF is the same. Juergen Braunstein will discuss why some countries create SWFs and others with similar financial attributes go in different directions. 

Speaker:

Juergen Braunstein, research fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Moderator:

Aurélie Bros, senior fellow, Energy Project, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; lecturer on government, Harvard University