| Norway's $855 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, will focus its future real estate acquisitions on booming global cities, its deputy chief said on Thursday. The fund, which owns on average 1.3 percent of all listed companies worldwide, invests 1.2 percent of its holdings in real estate but aims to increase that stake to 5 percent over time.
Some of its properties are located on London's Regent Street and Savile Row, the Champs-Elysees in Paris and in New York. "We look for cities that are expected to see rising housing prices, that attract talent and people who are willing to pay to live in these cities," Trond Grande, the fund's deputy chief, told a business seminar...............................................Full Article: Source |