Developments in 2008
- On 5 March 2008, a joint sub-committee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to discuss the role of "Foreign Government Investment in the U.S. Economy and Financial Sector". The hearing was attended by representatives of the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, Norway's Ministry of Finance, Singapore's Temasek Holdings, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
- On August 20, 2008, Germany approved a law that requires parliamentary approval for foreign investments that endanger national interests. To be specific, it will affect acquisitions of more than 25% of a German company's voting shares by non-European investors; but the economics minister Michael Glos has pledged that investment reviews would be "extremely rare". The legislation is loosely modelled on a similar one by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investments.
- On September 2–3, 2008, at a summit in Chile, the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds—consisting of the world's main SWFs—agreed to a voluntary code of conduct first drafted by IMF. They also considered a standing committee to represent them in international policy debates. The 24 principles in the draft (the Santiago Principles) were made public after being presented to the IMF governing council on October 11, 2008.
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