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The people of norway s money. why should they trust you to manage it for them? well, in a way, you should ask the people that hired me. but i think the reason i think i got thejob was because i have been running capital for 30 years. i ve been in that business for a very long time and also seen some ups and downs, you know? i m sure you have. running capital is sort of a jargon phrase but in essence, you founded and ran a hedge fund that was worth billions of dollars in its own right. but we associate hedge funds with risk taking, with financial instruments. we don t necessarily associate it with the steady as she goes notion of a sovereign wealth fund. yeah, i think it s more about having the right attitude towards risk. it s not necessary taking risk as being conscious about what risk is. so, during the time i ran ako capital, we were running with a lot lower risk than the actual market risk. when you were appointed, it stirred a storm of controversy ....
Nicolai tangen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. you currently manage a sovereign wealth fund which is worth roughly $1.1; trillion an unimaginable sum of money which is not your money it is actually the people of norway s money. why should they trust you to manage it for them? well, in a way, you should ask the people that hired me. but i think the reason why i think i got thejob was because i have been running capital for 30 years. i ve been in that business for a very long time and also seen some ups and downs, you know? i m sure you have. running capital is sort of a jargon phrase, but in essence, you founded and ran ....
Why should they trust you to manage it for them? well, in a way, you should ask the people that hired me. but i think the reason i think i got thejob was because i have been running capital for 30 years. i ve been in that business for a very long time and also seen some ups and downs, you know? i m sure you have. running capital is sort of a jargon phrase but in essence, you founded and ran a hedge fund that was worth billions of dollars in its own right. but we associate hedge funds with risk taking, with financial instruments. we don t necessarily associate it with the steady as she goes notion of a sovereign wealth fund. yeah, i think it s more about having the right attitude towards risk. it s not necessary taking risk as being conscious about what risk is. so during the time i ran ako capital, we were running with a lot lower risk than the actual market risk. when you were appointed, it stirred a storm of controversy inside norway ....
I got the job was because i have been running capitalfor 30 years. i ve been in that business for a very long time. and also seen some ups and downs, you know? i m sure you have. running capital is sort of a jargon phrase but in essence you founded and ran a hedge fund, now that was worth billions of dollars in its own right. but we associate hedge funds with risk taking, with financial instruments, we don t necessarily associate it with the steady as she goes notion of a sovereign wealth fund. yeah. i think it s more about having the right attitude towards risk. it s not necessary taking risk as being conscious about what risk is. so during the time i ran ako capital we were running with a lot lower risk than the actual market risk. when you were appointed it s stirred a storm of controversy inside norway not least because you were seen as a candidate who hadn t officially been put before the norwegian public. there was a list of names in the shortlist, yours was on it ....