Norway, a country of 5.5 million people that discovered oil off its coast in 1969, has built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — worth more than $2 trillion in 2026 and holding stakes in roughly 1.5 percent of all publicly listed shares on the pla
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Space DailyNorway, a country of 5.5 million people that discovered oil off its coast in 1969, has built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — worth more than $2 trillion in 2026 and holding stakes in roughly 1.5 percent of all publicly listed shares on the plaspacedaily.comA country of 5.5 million people owns, through a single state fund, close to one and a half per cent of every listed company on the planet. It has a formal name, the Government Pension Fund Global, though most people still call it Norway’s Oil Fund. By early 2026 it held assets worth more than […] The post Norway, a country of 5.5 million people that discovered oil off its coast in 1969, has built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — worth more than $2 trillion in 2026 and holding stakes in roughly 1.5 percent of all publicly listed shares on the planet — meaning every Norwegian citizen effectively owns nearly $400,000 of the fund on paper appeared first on Space Daily .
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