Examples of use of private liquidity
1. Private liquidity in the GCC alone, according to several estimates, is put at $1.2 trillion.
2. These figures of course do not include quasi–sovereign funds and private liquidity, which could easily add another $2 trillion to the total value of assets controlled by the above countries.
3. Both the SWFs, the quasi–sovereign funds and private liquidity — normally risk–averse — have traditionally found a safe home for their spare cash in US and European treasury bonds.
4. A danger in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries flush with estimated private liquidity in excess of $1.2 trillion, and GCC oil revenues set to hit $600 billion annually for 2008 and 200', according to a study by Gulf Finance House, is that the greed culture may take hold albeit in a benign form especially in a much less rigorously regulated financial market environment.
5. Despite the fact that capital has been returning to the region and real estate investments have been booming, there remains an underlying concern about the legal and regulatory governance of the real estate markets especially in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, and the long–anticipated market correction in the sector, which has been boosted to a large extent by artificial demand dynamics sustained by a market flush with private liquidity running into the billions of dollars.