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Norges Bank's letter to the Ministry of Finance of 23 December 2009

In the first quarter of 2020, the Government Pension Fund Global returned -14.6 percent, equivalent to -1,171 billion kroner.

Letter to the International Corporate Governance Network, 15 September 2020

Norges Bank Investment Management has signed an agreement to acquire a 50 percent interest in Sony Center, a mixed-use property located on Potsdamer Straße 4 in Berlin, in a joint venture with Oxford Properties.

The document sets out our expectations towards companies on tax and transparency. The expectations are based on international principles.

Norges Bank has excluded 52 companies from the Government Pension Fund Global after an assessment of companies and the new product-based coal criterion in the guidelines.

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, has named Trond Grande as its new deputy chief executive officer after Stephen Hirsch stepped down from the position in October last year. Grande

International equity and fixed income markets showed a marked improvement in the second quarter.

The return on the Government Pension Fund – Global was 13.5 percent (NOK 325 billion) in the third quarter. The record-high quarterly return can be attributed to a sharp rise in international equity markets and a normalisation of fixed income

Gains in international equity and fixed income markets led to a record annual return for the Government Pension Fund Global in 2009. The fund returned 25.6 percent, equivalent to 613 billion kroner. This was 4.1 percentage points higher than the