| As befits somebody who once spent six months alone in a remote Arctic cabin studying Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, Yngve Slyngstad is something of a corporate philosopher. Mr Slyngstad, who heads Norway’s oil fund, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is not merely content with trying to make more money for the local population. He is also thinking deeply about how companies and markets work.
“Where do we actually see the public company going forward? How can we make sure that the public company is actually able to put together a profitable proposition and appropriate flexibility in the way they run their business?” he says in an interview in his office in Norway’s central bank, which manages the fund...............................................Full Article: Source
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