One of the world’s largest investors, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund was established in the 1990s to invest the surplus revenues of the country’s oil and gas sector. To date, the fund has put money in more than 8,800 companies in over 70 countries around the world.
) k3 U) s4 q/ {; \0 g: M% K* LTrond Grande, deputy CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, said in a statement that the fund’s equity investments had a “very strong return in the first quarter, particularly driven by the tech sector.”6 @7 b1 _ a5 | m( J
When asked by CNBC whether he was concerned about the recent weakness for some of the so-called Magnificent Seven U.S. tech behemoths, Grande said it appeared that market participants were now reassessing their outlook for these companies.: O! e e1 i W9 r# n3 ^
The Magnificent Seven are Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla.
; z! I2 s: ~& [9 \- O* s“We had the Mag[nificent] 7 last year, and it has turned into a little bit more of [a situation of] dispersed returns for those seven names this quarter, with Nvidia still pushing ahead on the back of the AI enthusiasm. And then you see some more weakness in other names like Tesla and Apple,” Grande told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” on Thursday.
0 y7 D: f4 N+ A5 x5 W“So, obviously the market is taking a more nuanced look at these companies and their business models,” he added. |