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Arab news, Thu, May 22, 2025 | Dhu al-Qadah 24, 1446
Kuwait sovereign wealth fund head says investors reduce US exposure at their ‘own risk’
Kuwait:
The head of the Kuwait Investment Authority, which manages almost $1 trillion in
assets, said the sovereign wealth fund is committed to investing in the US and
that investors cut allocations to US assets at their own risk.
Some global investors have ditched US assets in recent weeks on fears that US
President Donald Trump’s overhaul of global trade may hurt the US economy, and
could cause deeper long-term damage.
The trend looks set to continue, given that a record number of managers have
said they plan to keep cutting their exposure to US assets, according to BofA
research.Kuwait has been investing in the US market for a “long time” and that
“won’t change,” KIA Managing Director Sheikh Saoud Salem Abdulaziz Al-Sabah said
at an investment conference in the Qatari capital on Wednesday.
“I would say it very bluntly, underweight America at your own risk,” he said.
Last week, Moody’s downgraded the US sovereign credit rating by one notch,
citing concerns about the nation’s growing $36 trillion debt pile, which could
make investors more cautious and drive up borrowing costs across the economy.
“They (investors) are merely looking at equity markets, but they’re not taking
into fact the US has the largest fixed income market, the US has the largest
private equity market, the real estate market, infrastructure and credit,” Al-Sabah
said.
“I think the US has the breadth and depth to sustain its exceptionalism and it
has the rule of law as well,” he said.