| President Pranab Mukherjee, blamed by some for driving away foreign investment as a UPA finance minister, is this week donning the mantle of chief lobbyist to re-ignite interest from Europe’s largest sovereign wealth fund — for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Norway holds Europe’s largest sovereign wealth fund — a state-owned investment fund used by nations to plough money usually into stocks, equities, markets or infrastructure projects that the country deems will earn it safe, high returns. Of its $890bn (Rs 54.3 lakh crore) sovereign fund, Norway has currently invested only about $4bn in Indian stock markets and specific infrastructure projects...............................................Full Article: Source
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