Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, is backing London's real-estate market to survive the so-called Brexodus of bankers that the U.K.'s exit from the European Union seem set to trigger. It's a brave bet, to say the least.
The fund posted a return of 13.7 percent in 2017, as surging global equity markets helped the owner of an average of 1.4 percent of the world's listed stocks to a record year.