All Government Pension Fund Global (GFPG) articles – Page 13
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Special ReportChart of the Week: European pension assets exceed €7.7trn
IPE’s Top 1000 Pension Funds survey shows that total assets under management have increased despite market turmoil
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NewsNorway’s sovereign fund seeks to allocate €6.3bn to private equity
The manager of the €944bn GFPG says the move would give it longer to build up holdings in pre-IPO firms
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NewsNorway’s €944bn sovereign fund recommends shift out of European equities
GPFG could shift billions out of European stock markets and into the US and Canada if its manager’s recommendations are accepted by government
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Norway’s SWF holds €60bn of negative-yielding bonds
Fixed income netted the NOK9.4trn fund 3.1% in the second quarter of 2019, but a quarter of its allocation now yields less than 0%
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NewsNBIM brings Rio Tinto, Walmart back into sovereign fund’s universe
SWF revokes exclusions for list of major stocks also including Rio Tinto, Walmart, General Dynamics and Nutrien
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Norway’s SWF dumps €139m of cannabis stocks after criticism
The Government Pension Fund Global made €45.7m in two months from the investments, according to Norwegian newspaper report
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KLP purges NOK3.2bn of shares as coal ban goes total
The Norwegian pension fund has reduced its coal tolerance limit to just 5% of a company’s revenue, cutting RWE, Sasol and BHP from its portfolio
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NewsNorwegian sovereign fund boasts €76bn Q1 gain despite currency drag
CEO Yngve Slyngstad hails best quarterly performance ever in local currency terms as Norwegian krone rises against major currencies
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Norwegian sovereign fund rejects outcomes reporting for SDGs
The €919bn Government Pension Fund Global says it is hard to measure an investor’s direct impact on goals set by UN bodies
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NewsNorway’s oil fund eyes bigger green bonds allocation, low cost cited
CEO Slyngstad also says upstream oil & gas divestment will take time
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NewsNorway clarifies SWF’s climate rules to facilitate exclusions
Proposed addition of absolute threshold for coal exclusions to capture more companies
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KLP blacklists three firms after ethical council advice
Norwegian fund excludes companies for human rights violations and coal and tobacco involvement
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Norwegian SWF ‘slow to act’ on climate-related exclusions
‘Moving targets’ on climate change measurements has made blacklistings hard to put in place, says ethics council
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Norway to cut €6.7bn of ‘upstream’ oil and gas companies from SWF
Finance ministry presents plan to divest some energy activities – but not integrated energy firms
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Norway’s domestic SWF beats the market in 2018
Manager Folketrygdfondet reports 0.4% investment loss in ‘negative market’
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NewsNorway’s sovereign fund records €50bn investment loss for 2018
Europe’s biggest fund has recouped some of its 6.1% loss in early 2019 as markets bounced back
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NewsNorway oil fund chair slams government plan to take more SWF money
Idea ‘violates’ good budget practice, says central bank governor Øystein Olsen
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Norway’s sovereign fund pulls plug on ESG managers to cut costs
GPFG’s manager grapples with new issues in low-carbon transition
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Norway SWF: Combining CEO, chair roles weakens company oversight
Norges Bank speaks out on thorny governance issues concerning the structure of company boards
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Stronger currency eats into Norway’s sovereign fund in Q3
Yngve Slyngstad cites trade jitters as a weight on markets
