Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is now worth $1,000,000,000,000

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is now worth $1,000,000,000,000

Norway's giant pension fund is now worth over $1 trillion. Yes, 1 followed by 12 zeros. The fund's managers announced Tuesday that currency shifts had helped push its value above $1 trillion for the first time. "The growth in the fund's market value has been stunning," fund chief Yngve Slyngstad said in a statement. "I don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach $1 trillion when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996."
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/19/investing/norway-pension-fund-trillion-dollars/index.html?source=Snapzu

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