Oslo, Aug 11, 2026 (AFP) - Norway wealth fund manager says fund collapse not impossible

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2026-08-11

Could Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world with over $2 trillion in assets, go up in smoke? On Tuesday, its manager said it was a possibility and that current global tensions made the prospect less implausible. Fuelled by the Norwegian state's oil and gas revenues, the sovereign wealth fund -- commonly called the oil fund -- has seen its value rise from under 2 billion kroner at its inception in 1996 to more than 22 trillion k......

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