Sovereign Wealth Funds as Global Economic and Political Actors: Defining of Notions

The article devoted to consideration of sovereign wealth funds (SWF) as economic and political actors as well as analysis of different forms of their activity in the contemporary global economics and politics. The author comes to the conclusion, that sovereign wealth funds play not only the role of providers of interests of the national states, but being the special purpose vehicles (SPV), designated to fulfill the different tasks, turn out to be the new type of global actors.