10.04.2014 - Norway to examine return on $850bln wealth fund before restructuring
Norway will wait to see whether property investments by its $850bn (€616bn) sovereign wealth fund pay off before considering new asset classes including infrastructure and private equity. "Whether we do it next year or the year after, that hasn't been decided," Paal Bjoernestad, state secretary in charge of the fund at the Finance Ministry, said. "We will come back to it – it's not off the table." Prime Minister Erna Solberg's Conservative-led government, in power since October, has backed away from pre-election talk of restructuring the fund and is now signaling any changes to the world's largest sovereign investor are likely to be slow...............................................Full Article: Source
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