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Norway's $900bn sovereign wealth fund told to reduce coal assets
2015-05-28 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Norways $900bn sovereign wealth fund, the worlds largest, should cut its exposure to the global coal industry and sell stakes in firms that focus on the sector, a key parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. The finance committee agreed in a bipartisan motion that the fund, which owns about 1.3% of all listed companies globally, should sell stakes in firms that generate more than 30% of their output or revenues from coal-related activities. Already under pressure from Norways political...
Norway's $900 billion sovereign fund told to reduce coal assets
2015-05-28 00:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Norway's $900 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, should cut its exposure to the global coal industry and sell stakes in firms that focus on the sector, a key parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. The finance committee agreed in a bipartisan motion that the fund, which owns about 1.3 percent of all listed companies globally, should sell stakes in firms that generate more than 30 percent of their output or revenues from coal-related activities. Already under pressure from...
Sovereign Wealth Funds Up the Ante on CRE Investment in the U.S.
2015-05-27 15:05:00| National Real Estate Investor
Sovereign wealth funds are expected to play a bigger role in the U.S. commercial real estate market in the coming months. Sovereign wealth funds are raising the stakes for global real estate allocations and North America remains a top focus for many groups. read more
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Sovereign Wealth Funds Increase CRE Allocations, Falling Oil Prices or Not
2015-04-15 14:30:00| National Real Estate Investor
The proportion of sovereign wealth funds investing in real estate assets has grown to 59 percent in 2014, from 54 percent the year before. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Norway sovereign fund bulks up on real estate
2015-02-25 09:15:29| Real Estate - Topix.net
Norway's state-run investment fund is becoming one of the world's biggest landlords at a time when other big commercial property owners are sounding alarms about high prices. The $874 billion Government Pension Fund of Norway, the world's largest sovereign-wealth fund, last year purchased $7.6 billion worth of property globally, more than any other sovereign fund, according to data from real-estate tracker Real Capital Analytics.