Sovereign wealth fund transparency

How open is each sovereign wealth fund? We check 10 things a fund can publish: total assets, annual return, long-term returns, asset allocation, a geographic or sector split, holdings, audited statements, governance documents, named leaders and a regular reporting schedule. Each item scores 0, 0.5 or 1, with a date and an evidence link.

This is our own editorial rubric. It is not any outside index or score. It measures what the public can see, not how well a fund is run.

Some patterns from our item scores across 206 operating funds: governance and mandate documents and named leaders are almost always public, while 52.4% publish no long-term return figure and 35.4% publish no annual return. Bigger funds score somewhat higher on average, mainly among funds that publish their own size; funds whose size is known only from press reports or estimates score far lower.

On this site you will find the disclosure walls, transparency by region and size versus transparency.

All funds by transparency score (231)