The fund returned 13.4 percent in 2012, the second-best result in its history, in a year marked by continued market turmoil and slow global economic growth. The total return since the fund’s inception passed a trillion kroner in November.

This policy outlines principles for external and internal communication to promote knowledge and awareness of the fund's objective and our management of the fund, and to ensure that communication is well coordinated and managed.

Letter to ICGN, 15 May 2014

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Letter to the European Commission, 18 May 2020

Norge's Banks letter to the Minestry of Finance 1 February 2012.

In 2015, Norges Bank Investment Management initiated a 3-year research project with the Columbia Water Centre at the University of Columbia to assess mining-related water and environmental risks and their financial implications.

The Government Pension Fund Global returned 9.6 percent, or 264 billion kroner, in 2010, driven by widespread gains in global stock and bond markets.

The first quarter of 2009 featured low inflows into the Government Pension Fund – Global and continued volatility in global markets.