IPE's Norway Coverage – Page 21
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Country Report
Norway: Paving the way for competition
Municipal reform and proposed new public-sector scheme is creating a fertile environment for competition
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News
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 blacklists NOK3bn of alcohol and gambling investments
NOK692bn provider cites health and social issues as it cuts 90 companies from its investment universe
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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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Falling costs and strong returns prompt KLP price cut
Norwegian municipal pension provider’s premium reduction comes as reforms threaten its near-monopoly on local authority sector
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Norwegian 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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Norway’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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Norwegian public funds post 2018 investment gains
Oslo, Bergen and Akershus pension funds all made money in 2018 despite rocky equity markets
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Norway publishes proposal for new-look public sector pension
DNB notes lack of guidelines related to competition in the market
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Norway clarifies SWF’s climate rules to facilitate exclusions
Proposed addition of absolute threshold for coal exclusions to capture more companies
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Norwegian councils band together to form €705m pension fund
KLP to lose NOK1.25bn business as result of merger
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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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KLP hunts for more women to manage pensions money
Norwegian municipal pension fund aims for 40% of investment staff to be female by 2023
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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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KLP banishes NAT in bid to end ship scrapping on Asian beaches
Norwegian pension fund divests Norwegian-led firm Nordic American Tankers
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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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Norway’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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Storebrand, DNB set to re-enter Norway’s €50bn municipal market
Mandatory tendering must be part of the reform when new rules come into force next year, providers say