Macro-financial risk
2026-04-26
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Norway GPFG 2026: Allocation Frame, US Tech Overweight, and the Concentration Trap
The world's largest single owner fund closed 2024 at NOK 19.7 trillion, USD 1.78 trillion, with 71.4 percent in equities and a US share that has crowded a third of equity capital into eleven megacap names. The 2026 question is whether the benchmark, the fiscal rule, and the Ethics Council still bind a portfolio that has outgrown them.
The Government Pension Fund Global, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, ended 2024 at NOK 19.742 trillion in market value, equivalent to roughly USD 1.78 trillion at year end NOK 11.07 per dollar. The 2024 return was 13.0 percent in NOK and 8.6 percent in the fund's currency basket, the third...