Consultation input to the Fondsmeldingen 2025
Here, Long-Term follows its consultation input to Meld. St. about the State Pension Fund 2025, where we discuss the Fund's climate risks and investments in unlisted infrastructure.
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The purpose of the management of the State Pension Fund Abroad (SPU) is to ensure that wealth benefits both current and future generations, where “good” should not be understood in a narrow financial sense.
A number of global challenges threaten the welfare of future generations. The consequences of these can be reduced if we manage the State Pension Fund abroad wisely. In this sense, there is an obvious conflict between the financial desire to maximise the size of the fund and the desire to ensure the welfare of future generations. Parliament should, in such cases, provide the government with guidelines on how this should be weighed. In this hearing recording, we make two suggestions for them.
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