Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute

Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, Inc.
Company type	Private
Founded	2008
Headquarters	US
Number of locations	Worldwide
Area served	Global
Key people	Michael Maduell (CEO); Karen Maduell (COO); Lakshmi Narayanan (Chairman);
Products	Research and Data Subscriptions, Publications, Datafeeds, APIs, Events, Consulting
Website	www.swfinstitute.org

The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (also SWF Institute, or simply SWFI) is an American corporation analyzing public asset owners such as sovereign wealth funds and other long-term governmental investors. Initially, the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute focused solely on sovereign wealth funds. It has branched out to cover all types of public institutional investors. The institute sells its subscription and API/datafeed services as a financial data vendor but provides information to the media as well.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Incorporated in 2008, it was founded by Michael Maduell and shortly he brought in Carl Linaburg,^[4] who then left the organization in 2017. In late 2022, Lakshmi Narayanan of the Patel Family Office was named Chairman of SWFI.^[5]

SWFI sells its research and data via subscriptions to asset managers, banks, researchers, universities, governments, institutional investors, asset owners, corporations, law firms and other entities. The SWFI Subscription product is located at www.swfi.com.

In 2020, SWFI started to initiate coverage over family office sector and wealth management firms.

^ Kim, Susanna. "Why Norwegians Are Millionaires and Americans Are Paupers". ABC News. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
^ Blas, Javier. "Protecting Nigeria oil SWF is no easy task". Financial Times. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
^ Abedine, Saad. "Body of Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund chief found". CNN. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
^ Allen, Brad (30 May 2014). "Is there an SWF in your future?". IR Magazine.
^ "Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Names Lakshmi Narayanan as Chairman of the Board". Businesswire. 24 October 2022.

[1] Kim, Susanna. "Why Norwegians Are Millionaires and Americans Are Paupers". ABC News. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

[2] Blas, Javier. "Protecting Nigeria oil SWF is no easy task". Financial Times. Retrieved 10 October 2013.

[3] Abedine, Saad. "Body of Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund chief found". CNN. Retrieved 31 March 2010.

[4] Allen, Brad (30 May 2014). "Is there an SWF in your future?". IR Magazine.

[5] "Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Names Lakshmi Narayanan as Chairman of the Board". Businesswire. 24 October 2022.

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