The Norwegian oil fund is worth trillions of dollars, vastly exceeding Norway's overall economy. As the fund grows increasingly large, debates have emerged around how the Norwegian people could better utilize this funding. Following the 2017 elections, greater attention was paid to the fund's governance and whether alternative investment strategies could provide benefits. Discussions also centered around sustainability factors and ensuring the fund considers environmental, social, and governance risks to maintain strong long-term returns while limiting organizational problems. Learning from peer funds and improving management of climate and sustainability risks will help strengthen the oil fund's approach to risk.
The Norwegian oil fund is worth trillions of dollars, vastly exceeding Norway's overall economy. As the fund grows increasingly large, debates have emerged around how the Norwegian people could better utilize this funding. Following the 2017 elections, greater attention was paid to the fund's governance and whether alternative investment strategies could provide benefits. Discussions also centered around sustainability factors and ensuring the fund considers environmental, social, and governance risks to maintain strong long-term returns while limiting organizational problems. Learning from peer funds and improving management of climate and sustainability risks will help strengthen the oil fund's approach to risk.
The Norwegian oil fund is worth trillions of dollars, vastly exceeding Norway's overall economy. As the fund grows increasingly large, debates have emerged around how the Norwegian people could better utilize this funding. Following the 2017 elections, greater attention was paid to the fund's governance and whether alternative investment strategies could provide benefits. Discussions also centered around sustainability factors and ensuring the fund considers environmental, social, and governance risks to maintain strong long-term returns while limiting organizational problems. Learning from peer funds and improving management of climate and sustainability risks will help strengthen the oil fund's approach to risk.
Executive Summary: The importance of Norwegian oil fund is trillion dollars and it is multiple of economy of Norway. The ever-increasing proportion, it is also a financing that people of Norway could spend. After the elections of 2017, the attention had been devoted and observed onto it. Before 2017, its importance could not be overstated. Specifically, its importance of governance reform and it provides people other potential variations to investment strategies, and it is difficult and critical. The sustainability dimensions have been factored into these conversations and it is paramount to being sure about that. It is indicated that there is strong interlinked relationship between environmental, governance and social parameters, just due to good policy. It provides low risks of financial problems and generate long-term financial relationship which could be strong, and it creates low risk of other problems present in the organization and limiting risks. For oil fund we need to learn it from peers, and it is importantly, to enhance and increase its approach to manage the risk of climate and investing sustainability which is based on difficult risk attentions.
10 Years On - What Have We Learned? Remarks by Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor of The Central Bank of Ireland Dublin Economics Workshop, Wexford 14 September 2018