Newsmakers
NBIM Boss Nicolai Tangen Will Seek Another 5-Year Term
Tangen has run the management company overseeing the $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund since 2020.
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Newsmakers
NBIM Real Assets CIO Mie Caroline Holstad to Depart
The departure comes as the fund consolidates its real assets and equities business units.
Asset Allocation
Norway’s Pension Fund Global Returns 2.1% in Q2; Asset Value Rises to $1.69T
Equities were responsible for the sovereign wealth fund’s 8.6% first half gains.
Asset Allocation
Norway’s Pension Fund Global Rebounds in 2023, Still Misses Benchmark
Rallying equities helped the pension giant return 16.1% during the year, but it fell 18 basis points shy of its benchmark.
Newsmakers
Norges Bank, AP7 Named Co-Lead Plaintiffs in Silicon Valley Bank Lawsuit
The institutional investors lost a combined total of nearly $162 million from investments in the bank’s holding company, SVB Financial Group.
Asset Allocation
Public Equities Propel 10% 1H Return for Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
Following a weak 2022, the Government Pension Fund Global’s market value rose to $1.443 trillion at the end of June.
Asset Management Culture
Norges Bank Will Study How Psychological Safety Can Improve Performance
The $1.4 trillion pension fund manager’s two-year research project will also investigate how resilience and sport psychology can boost results.
Asset Allocation
Norway Pension Giant Seeks To Remove ‘Rotten Apples’ From Portfolio
CEO Nicolai Tangen acknowledged that Norges Bank Investment Management ‘lost a considerable sum’ from the Silicon Valley Bank failure.
Asset Allocation
Norges Bank IM Names Malin Norberg Co-CIO of Asset Strategies
Norberg will share duties with Geir Øivind Nygård in the newly created position.
Risk
Norway Targets Net Zero for Sovereign Wealth Fund by 2050
The $1.2 trillion fund aims to create a system to measure its climate risk exposure by 2025.
Asset Allocation
Market Turmoil Sinks Norway’s Pension Giant by $173 Billion in First Half
Despite losing 14.4%, the “oil fund” beat its benchmark by 114 basis points thanks to ... oil.
Asset Allocation
Real Estate, Equities Drive 14.5% Return for Norway’s Pension Fund in 2021
The fund giant’s portfolio has returned more than $488 billion in the past three years alone to boost its total asset value to $1.38 trillion.
Asset Allocation
Norway Pension Giant Rebounds in Q3 From Heavy First-Half Losses
The $1.15 trillion fund returns 4.3% during the quarter after losing $21 billion in the first half.
Asset Management Culture
Incoming Norges Bank Chief Nicolai Tangen to Sell Hedge Fund Holdings
The divestment addresses concerns raised at a parliamentary hearing earlier this month.
Corporate Moves
Norges Bank Board Defends Chief Executive Pick, Again
At a parliamentary hearing, the board governor helped the hedge fund manager Nicolai Tangen, under fire since his appointment.