Abstract: This article focuses on the foreign investments of a select group of oil-exporting countries that are collectively known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC is made up of six small oil-rich Arab countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar.

The main objectives of this study are:

a) to offer a detailed overview of the size of GCC foreign assets, and of their allocation among various geographical regions and asset types;
b) to evaluate the economic and financial consequences, for the respective host countries and for global capital markets, of the investment of GCC foreign assets; and
c) to assess the potential strategic as well as economic benefits for GCC countries of these large foreign asset portfolios.

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