Norway's $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, will divest its Russian assets following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Norwegian prime minister said on Sunday.
The fund's Russian assets, consisting of shares in some 47 companies as well as government bonds, were worth 25 billion Norwegian crowns at the end of 2021, down from 30 billion crowns a year earlier, the government said."We have decided to freeze the fund's investments and have begun a process of selling out ," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.
7 billion crowns and equities worth 23.3 billion crowns, according to Norges Bank Investment Management .The most valuable stake in an individual firm at the end of 2020 was in Sberbank, where it held 0.83%, worth 6 billion crowns at the time, making the fund the fourth-largest shareholder, according to Refinitiv Eikon data.Read MoreThe second and third largest stakes at the end of 2020 were in energy firms Gazprom and Lukoil.
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