29th January, 2026
NBIM delivered a 15.1% return in 2025, following 13.1% in 2024, extending the rebound that began after the sharp drawdown of 2022. In historical terms, 2025 sits well above the fund’s long-run annualised return (around 6.6% since 1998), confirming that the last three years have been unusually supportive for a portfolio with large listed equity exposure.
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23rd January, 2026
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is preparing to close its dedicated real estate office in Paris, consolidating its European unlisted property operations in London as part of a wider shift in how the fund manages real assets.
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19th January, 2026
When concerns began to circulate late last year that the Trump administration was preparing to upend the tax treatment of SWFs, the reaction saw lawyers issue alerts, investors reviewing strategies and fund managers fielded anxious calls.
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18th December, 2025
For years, the phrase “a Falklands sovereign wealth fund” has been floated like a thought experiment: a hypothetical Norway-in-miniature that might one day turn offshore hydrocarbons into a long-term public endowment.
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10th November, 2025
For years, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has tried to be predictable. It has presented itself as a long-term, rules-based investor whose job is to turn oil and gas revenues into broad, steady exposure to the global economy.
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30th October, 2025
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) delivered a 5.8% return in the third quarter of 2025, with equities up 7.7%, fixed income up 1.4%, unlisted real estate up 1.1%, and unlisted renewables up 0.3%.
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8th October, 2025
Across the biggest sovereign wealth funds, leaders have reached a common view of 2025: the world is at the beginning of a long period of uncertainty in which debt, deglobalization and geopolitics keep volatility elevated, while technology - especially AI - creates durable pockets of growth.
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29th September, 2025
NBIM has just committed US$1.5 billion to Brookfield Asset Management’s Global Transition Fund II (BGTF II), which represents its second indirect allocation to unlisted renewables and its first to a broad “energy transition” platform.
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25th September, 2025
This week, the Dutch government announced the partial sale of TenneT’s German operations to a consortium of long-term investors: Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Singapore’s GIC, and Dutch pension fund APG.
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5th September, 2025
PFZW, the EUR250 billion Dutch healthcare pension fund managed by PGGM, has announced it is pulling a EUR14.5 billion (US$17 billion) mandate from BlackRock, over climate stewardship – revealing an ideological fault-line that has emerged over ESG investment and climate stewardship.
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3rd September, 2025
Thames Water’s slow-motion crisis has become the Rorschach test for how attractive - or not - UK regulated infrastructure is to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs).
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29th August, 2025
Norway’s NOK20.2 trillion (US$2 trillion) Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) has shed stakes in 23 Israeli companies since the end of June after an accelerated ethics review by its manager, Norges Bank (NBIM).
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