Norway to curb risk to SWF

Norway’s finance ministry has moved to tighten risk controls over the country’s sovereign wealth fund but has rejected calls for an end to active management. The Norwegian government published the report on the management of the Government Pension Fund in 2009 in March 2010.

Website: International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) http://www.ifswf.org/

ESO: Background information: Norway wealth fund recovers stock losses http://www.europeansources.info/record/norway-wealth-fund-recovers-stock-losses/

Norway: Ministry of Finance: Selected topics: Government Pension Fund http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fin/Selected-topics/The-Government-Pension-Fund.html?id=1441

Norway: Ministry of Finance: Press Release, 26.3.10: Report on the management of the Government Pension Fund in 2009 http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fin/press-center/Press-releases/2010/Report-on-the-management-of-the-Government-Pension-Fund-in-2009.html?id=599439

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