SWFs

But the researcher provided a wealth of examples of websites that were made vulnerable by the Adobe files, which provide graphics that move and are often referred to as SWFs, because of the three-letter suffix their file names carry.

The Register 2009

The survey results show by working on their reputation and by increasing awareness of their SWFs is a key step for West Asian countries looking to open up significant investment opportunities. "

rediff.com 2010

But if the success of SWFs in Asia and the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Middle East are a benchmark, Australia should give the idea closer consideration.

A Case for an Aussie Sovereign-Wealth Fund Andrew Critchlow 2011

Although SWFs routinely claim that they make their investments on purely economic grounds, as major investors they have political influence if they choose to use it.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Sovereign wealth funds SWFs, which make strategic investments on behalf of cash-rich governments, are also increasingly big players in the global economy.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

To be sure, Australia already has an investment vehicle, the Future Fund, which overseas more than US$70 billion set aside to cover the government's pension liabilities, and a nationwide system of company-funded superannuation programs for the private sector, which policy makers argue already effectively serve as SWFs.

A Case for an Aussie Sovereign-Wealth Fund Andrew Critchlow 2011

Sovereign wealth funds SWFs, which make strategic investments on behalf of cash-rich governments, are also increasingly big players in the global economy.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

What the NIC report called “the transfer of wealth and economic power from West to East” means that the biggest SWFs are controlled by oil-rich nations, particularly in the Persian Gulf, and by Asian nations such as China.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Only the joint and several guarantee of a eurobond, or the power of a greatly expanded EFSF, is likely to win over the SWFs.

Without ECB, Italy May Party Like It's 1992 Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

"We realize that SSBT is likely Chinese SWFs, but we're not particularly paying attention to one specific shareholder,"said a spokesman for chemical-products maker Nitto Denko Corp., referring to sovereign-wealth funds.

China's Stealth Investments in Japan Atsuko Fukase 2011