Norway Lawmakers Win Review on Wealth Fund Infrastructure Push

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Norway’s parliament demanded further study on whether the country’s $850 billion sovereign wealth fund should invest in infrastructure and recommended it start a review of its expectations for investments listed in tax havens.

“It’s very positive that we’ve managed to move the government from wanting to close the door entirely to agreeing to a step forward” on infrastructure, Torstein Tvedt Solberg, a lawmaker for the opposition Labor Party, said by telephone on Monday.