| Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of the Norwegian government’s global pension fund has published its third quarter report on investment returns. The Government Pension Fund Global returned 5.0%, or 228 billion kroner,($37bn) in the third quarter of 2013. Equity investments returned 7.6%, while fixed income investments returned 0.3%. The return on equity and fixed income investments was 0.1 percentage point higher than the return on the fund’s bench mark, the report said.
Investments in real estate returned 4.1%. The fund had a market value of 4,714 billion ($769bn) kroner at the end of the quarter and was invested 63.6% in equities, 35.5% in fixed income and 0.9% in real estate...............................................Full Article: Source |