China Investment Corporation (CIC): Too early to fear China’s sovereign wealth fund

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Few institutions are as intensely scrutinized, debated over and even feared as China’s recently minted sovereign wealth fund.

The China Investment Corporation (CIC), launched in summer 2007 to much fanfare, is barely out of swaddling clothes, yet already it has been picked to death by the international press, global wealth managers and a broad range of paranoid governmental institutions.

This is strange, as even a glance inside the ramshackle internal structure of the $200 billion, Beijing-controlled fund, the first of its kind ever launched by the People’s Republic, dispels much of the fear.

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