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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Digital Economy &amp; Innovations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Digital Economy &amp; Innovations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Цифровая экономика и инновации</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">3034-2074</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-4204</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Togliatti State University</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">896</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18323/3034-2074-2025-4-63-3</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Current development of global investment funds as a form of international business organization</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Современное развитие глобальных инвестиционных фондов как формы организации международного бизнеса</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4953-9560</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Khmeleva</surname><given-names>Galina A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хмелева</surname><given-names>Галина Анатольевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Professor, professor of Chair of Regional Economics and Management, chief researcher of Center for Studies of Countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор экономических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры региональной экономики и управления, главный научный сотрудник Центра изучения стран Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки</p></bio><email>galina.a.khmeleva@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7262-3256</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Materova</surname><given-names>Elena S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Матерова</surname><given-names>Елена Сергеевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD (Economics), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair of Economic Theory</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат экономических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры экономической теории</p></bio><email>nedlen63@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Samara State University of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Самарский государственный экономический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-26" publication-format="electronic"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>27</fpage><lpage>37</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Khmeleva G.A., Materova E.S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Хмелева Г.А., Матерова Е.С.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Khmeleva G.A., Materova E.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хмелева Г.А., Матерова Е.С.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vektornaukieconomika.ru/jour/article/view/896">https://vektornaukieconomika.ru/jour/article/view/896</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the modern era of globalized financial markets, the investment process has reached a qualitatively new level, transcending national borders and transforming into a complex ecosystem of international capital. Within this context, global investment funds play a key role, having evolved from simple financial intermediaries into powerful and flexible forms of international business organization. By accumulating resources from millions of investors and using advanced analytical and technological tools, they both follow global trends and actively shape them, determining the direction of financial flows and becoming the architects of a new investment reality. This paper attempts to describe the business models used by global investment funds, reducing them to a certain uniformity by identifying strategic patterns of action during crises and taking into account unfolding contemporary trends (geographic diversification, ESG standards, and technological transformation). The discovered patterns formed the basis of strategic models: Conservative Giants, Aggressive Innovators, and Balanced Generalists. These models reveal the underlying business models of funds and serve as a practical tool for management companies and regulators, enabling them to forecast trajectories of the global investment landscape and optimize business models in the face of increasing volatility and technological change. The obtained results can be used by regulators to develop more balanced approaches to supervising cross-border capital movements, as well as by asset managers to select optimal development strategies.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В современную эпоху глобализированных финансовых рынков инвестиционный процесс вышел на качественно новый уровень, преодолев национальные границы и трансформировавшись в сложную экосистему международного капитала. На этом фоне ключевую роль играют глобальные инвестиционные фонды, которые превратились из простых финансовых посредников в мощные и гибкие формы организации международного бизнеса. Аккумулируя ресурсы миллионов инвесторов и используя передовые аналитические и технологические инструменты, они не только следуют за глобальными трендами, но и активно формируют их, определяя направления финансовых потоков и становясь архитекторами новой инвестиционной реальности. В статье предпринята попытка обрисовать используемые глобальными инвестиционными фондами бизнес-модели, сведя их к некому единообразию путем выявления стратегических паттернов действия в кризисных условиях и с учетом разворачивающихся на современном этапе трендов (географической диверсификации, ESG-стандартов и технологической трансформации). Обнаруженные паттерны легли в основу стратегических моделей: «Консервативные гиганты», «Агрессивные новаторы» и «Сбалансированные универсалы», которые раскрывают глубинные бизнес-модели фондов и представляют собой практический инструмент для управляющих компаний и регуляторов, позволяющий прогнозировать траектории развития мирового инвестиционного ландшафта и оптимизировать бизнес-модели в условиях растущей волатильности и технологических изменений. Полученные результаты могут быть использованы регуляторами для разработки более сбалансированных подходов к надзору за трансграничными перемещениями капитала, а также управляющими активами для выбора оптимальной стратегии развития.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>global investment funds</kwd><kwd>organizational models</kwd><kwd>strategic profiles</kwd><kwd>ESG transformation</kwd><kwd>crypto exposure</kwd><kwd>Sharpe ratio</kwd><kwd>geographic diversification</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>глобальные инвестиционные фонды</kwd><kwd>организационные модели</kwd><kwd>стратегические профили</kwd><kwd>ESG-трансформация</kwd><kwd>крипто-экспозиция</kwd><kwd>коэффициент Шарпа</kwd><kwd>географическая диверсификация</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Lomonosov A.A. 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