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Norway’s $2.3 trillion fund posts record $185 billion gain, flags AI risk
Norway’s $2.3 trillion fund posts record $185 billion gain, flags AI risk
Norges Bank Investment Management reported a record $185 billion in investment returns for the first half of the year, taking the fund's value to $2.3 trillion. The second quarter alone delivered an…
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Norges Bank Investment Management reported a record $185 billion in investment returns for the first half of the year, taking the fund's value to $2.3 trillion. The second quarter alone delivered an 11.5% return, the best since 2020. Equity investments led with a 16% return, while fixed income managed 1.1%.
Chief executive Nicolai Tangen told Bloomberg TV the rally has made the fund nervous. "We are seeing a lot of reasons to be really cautious," he said, citing AI valuations and geopolitics. The fund's top ten holdings now account for nearly a quarter of its value, a concentration Tangen said he has never seen before. Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet are its three biggest bets.
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A sovereign wealth fund nervous about its own success is a rare signal. The narrative around AI has become so dominant that even the world's biggest investor is warning about circular financing inflating a bubble. Yet the fund's own returns show how deeply it profits from that same frenzy. The test will be whether its caution translates into real rebalancing, or remains just talk until the next quarterly statement.
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