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Norges Bank commits over $2bn to energy transition fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025
... investment through a global renewable energy fund since receiving the management mandate from the Norwegian Ministry of Finance in 2019. BGTF II focuses on business transformation, clean energy, and sustainable solutions aimed at accelerating the transition ...

Green moves: Airtrunk, JPMorgan, T. Rowe Price

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... finance, and sustainability strategy. Previously, she served as head of economic strategy at Singapore's Ministry of Finance, where she represented Singapore in international climate finance negotiations and spearheaded the development of the nation's ...

PensionDanmark selects future chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... PensionDanmark and undergo "intensive training" to prepare him for the top job. Mørch currently worked with the Ministry of Finance and has previously held various government roles. "We are delighted to announce Peter Stensgaard Mørch as the future ...

Sovereign wealth fund revokes exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... since found the grounds for exclusion are no longer present. In line with the fund's management mandate, the Ministry of Finance will determine if and when the holdings may be re-introduced to the fund's benchmark index. "Re-introduction into the benchmark ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... paperwork to slap a 25% tariff on all remaining imports from China worth around US$325 billion. As expected, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street on Monday, the May 13) that it's ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... expected as much - but that the financial markets reacted more to Beijing's tit for his tariff tat. The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street) that it's imposing increased ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... that the Chinese government has now borrowed a leaf from its adversary in the form of tax cuts. China's Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation has just published the personal income tax deduction plan (the final version is scheduled ...

The trillion dollar pension fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... phasing petroleum revenues into the economy. Norges Bank Investment Management manages the fund on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, which owns the fund on behalf of the Norwegian people - a population of approximately 5.2 million. In April last year ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... increasing trend on the back of an improvement in overseas economies" is perhaps, more on the pessimistic side. The Ministry of Finance released data showing the country recording a ¥813.4 billion trade surplus in February, up from a ¥1,086.9 billion ...

Responsible investment is not just divestment

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... main message from Principles for Responsible Investment chair (and former director general at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance) Martin Skancke's keynote speech at the 2015 RI Conference in Sydney. He noted the internal conflict in investment management ...
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