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Today in Norway: A Roundup of the Latest News on Wednesday
Nicolai Tangen said the $2 trillion fund could lose 80% of stock market value if extreme global risks hit markets.
- On Aug 11, CEO Nicolai Tangen warned Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest with over $2 trillion in assets, could collapse due to global tensions and unsustainable extraordinary growth.
- Fuelled by Norwegian state oil and gas revenues since 1996, the fund has grown from under 2 billion kroner to more than 22 trillion kroner today, designed as a long-term undertaking to benefit future generations.
- Tangen highlighted extreme risks including nuclear war or an "AI bubble" burst combined with US-China trade wars, which could wipe out "at least 80 per cent" of stock market investment value.
- In a speech in Arendal this week, Tangen argued no country has maintained such a vast fortune long-term, citing historical examples like Spain and the United Kingdom where "fortunes always end up disappearing."
- To balance public finances, the Norwegian government is currently allowed to draw up to 3 per cent from the fund each year, a ceiling tied to estimated annual investment returns that preserves the nest egg.
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·Berlin, Germany
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The Norwegian State Global Pension Fund, considered the largest sovereign fund in the world, could lose all its value in the future under certain circumstances, such as a collapse of the market, alerted its executive president (CEO), Nicolai Tangen. Can the fund disappear? The answer is yes. And the worst is that, in the world in which we live, this is not entirely unlikely. There is no country in history that has managed to maintain such a grea…
·Lisboa, Portugal
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