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8 facts from 7 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2023
Nicolai Tangen said Microsoft is the second biggest holding in Norway's sovereign wealth fund, worth roughly 40,000 kroner per Norwegian.
“Microsoft is the second biggest holding in the fund, uh, and each Norwegian own roughly 40,000 kroner worth”
2024
Nicolai Tangen noted that Nvidia's roughly $3 trillion market capitalization was nearly twice the size of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest.
“Which is nearly twice the size of, uh, this fund, which is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.”
Undated
Nicolai Tangen said the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund owns a stake in GSK he gave as 1.7, valued at 1.3 billion US dollars.
“Now, we own 1.7 of GSK, valued at 1.3 billion U. S. dollars.”
Undated
Nicolai Tangen said the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund's stake in Palo Alto Networks is worth more than $1 billion.
“We own 1.1 point 2% of the company, translating into more than $1 billion.”
Undated
Nicolai Tangen says the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund owns just under 3% of SAP, worth about $9 billion.
“we own just under 3% of the company, $9 billion, equivalent to 100 billion Norwegian kroner, or 20,000 kroner per Norwegian.”
Undated
Tangen says the Norwegian fund tries to think in a horizon of fifty to a hundred years.
“we are, you know, fifty, fifty to hundred years. At at least we try to be”
Undated
Tangen says the Norwegian fund receives a mandate from the Ministry of Finance setting broad rules for its investments.
“we have uh a mandate from the Ministry of Finance which tells Us in broad terms how we should be invested.”
Undated
Nicolai Tangen says Norges Bank Investment Management holds about two petabytes of data in Snowflake and runs roughly 3 million queries against it each day.
“We have two petabytes of data in Snowflake, which is the equivalent of 2 million gigabytes, and we have roughly 3 million queries into the database every day.”
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