Norway Wealth Fund CEO Sees Market Weakness, Inflation Threat
- Tangen says fund preparing for ‘a decade of lower returns’
- Inflation may have ‘far more serious impact than assumed’
Nicolai Tangen
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The head of Norway’s $1.4 trillion wealth fund said he expects a lengthy period of weakness in financial markets and warned that inflation could be the most significant challenge ahead.
Nicolai Tangen, chief executive officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, told Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that after achieving an average rate of return of 6% for a quarter century, the fund is now preparing for “a decade of lower returns.”