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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund could receive $106bn in cash from the sale to the public of a 5% stake in oil giant Aramco’s parent company, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.
“Suitable investors in Aramco could be long-term institutional investors such as the Canadian pensions, or even Asian sovereign wealth funds,” the Las Vegas-based consultant and researcher said in a report released on Thursday. “If an Aramco deal goes through, it could be a blueprint for other Saudi state-owned entities to follow, thus potentially increasing the cash pot of the Public Investment Fund while enlarging domestic markets.” The kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, which will eventually control more than $2tn of assets once the government transfers its ownership of Aramco to the fund, was set up in 1971 to finance development projects that would help make the country less dependent on oil. The listing of Aramco, or Saudi Arabian Oil Co, may happen as soon as 2017, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said last week in an interview with Bloomberg News. Transferring Aramco to the PIF would technically make investments the source of government revenue, not oil, Prince Mohammed said.
The SWFI calculated the enterprise value of the Saudi Arabian Oil Co based on $10 barrel of oil. Assuming that the money raised from the sale of a stake in Aramco is invested by PIF and not used by the government to fund the budget deficit, about 60% of the cash would probably be allocated to fixed income and the remainder to equities with some of the management outsourced, SWFI wrote.
“This would be a rich opportunity for asset managers,” the SWFI said.
PIF already holds about $87bn worth of stakes in local companies including Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the world’s second-biggest chemicals manufacturer, and National Commercial Bank, the Middle East’s second-largest lender.
In July, PIF acquired a 38% stake in South Korea’s Posco Engineering & Construction Co for $1.1bn. That month it also agreed to a $10bn partnership to invest in Russia with the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
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