Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is a fairytale of global finance. In less than 25 years investing the energy riches of the North Sea, it has grown into a $1.2tn giant; it owns 1.5 per cent of the world’s publicly traded companies. Who more stimulating for me to have my first formal lunch with in six months, I think, than the man who for more than a decade presided over this behemoth — and used its heft to hold company boards to account for their environmental and social impact?
挪威主權財富基金(即政府全球養老基金(Government Pension Fund Global),又稱「石油基金」(Oil Fund)——譯者注)是全球金融界的一個童話故事。在利用北海(North Sea)能源財富進行投資的不到25年內,它的體量增至龐大的1.2兆美元;它擁有全球公開上市企業的1.5%股份。我想,要挑選我6個月來首次正式共進午餐的嘉賓,還有誰比執掌這個巨無霸超過10年——並利用其分量追究董事會對企業環境和社會影響的責任——的男人更振奮人心呢?