Savings funds, such as Norway's Government Pension Fund, transfer resource wealth across generations by building portfolios that aim to provide returns long after the oil has run dry.
Perhaps the best-known crowd-sourcing website is Kickstarter, an online resource for artists, designers and inventors to ask for donations to fund creative projects.
Management of internal datasets is resource intensive and, depending on the level of the relationship and communication between fund and investor, inconsistencies may arise in the data across firms.