Norway’s $740 Billion Fund May Be Restructured, Solberg Says

Norway needs to review its $740 billion sovereign wealth fund to find a more competitive model that will boost returns, according to the head of the opposition bloc leading in polls ahead of elections next month.

Singapore State Fund Tackles Markets With New Strategy

GIC Pte, manager of more than $100 billion of Singapore’s reserves, is changing its investment strategy for the second time in three decades to be more flexible as the global outlook becomes “complicated.”

Sovereign Funds’ Assets to Gain 60% by 2016, UBS’s Castelli Says

Sovereign wealth funds will increase their assets by 60 percent over the next three years, bolstered by rising income from commodities and exports, according to UBS AG. (UBSN)

Sovereign fund's losses roil Norwegians

Sticking to a financial plan can be challenging, even if you are the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

Or, so it seems, sometimes, for Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global and the handful of active traders at Norges Bank Investment Management -- challenged during the first two weeks of August to explain the loss of 200 billion kroner ($372-million U.S.) in equity value, as much as its stock losses for all of the second-quarter.