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  • Shareholder group steps up rare metals engagement

    03 December 2021

    A group of shareholders with a total of €30 billion ($34 billion) in assets said it will this month begin stepping up its engagement with companies involved with potential controversies in the supply chains of rare earths and rare metals.

  • NBIM's environmental mandates impress in 2020

    28 January 2021

    The 'environmental-related mandates' of the $1.3 trillion Norwegian sovereign wealth fund helped drive outperformance last year, contributing 20 basis points to the fund's relative return.

  • Norges Bank backs climate and water shareholder resolutions

    20 April 2018

    The advisor to the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has thrown its weight behind climate-related shareholder resolutions with energy companies Imperial Oil and TransCanada.

  • Volkswagen stock reacts positively to guilty plea

    13 March 2017

    Volkswagen stock has reacted positively following the company's guilty plea to criminal charges in relation to the emissions scandal.

  • Norway's sovereign wealth fund to sue Volkswagen

    16 May 2016

    Norway's $850 billion oil fund has told the media it will sue Volkswagen (VW) over last year's emissions test scandal.

  • Norway's sovereign wealth fund divests 58 companies on environmental grounds

    11 March 2016

    Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund divested from 58 companies last year because they were deemed to pose environmental risks.

  • Norwegian government backs oil fund coal divestment

    28 May 2015

    Norway's NOK7 trillion ($894 billion) oil fund is to divest more of its coal holdings after the country's politicians gave an earlier-than-expected backing to plans to reduce its exposure to the commodity.