Why you should follow the Norwegians east

Norway is home to world's second-largest sovereign wealth fund. And it's rebalancing its investments away from the West towards emerging markets. That's something you should consider too, says Bengt Saelensminde.

On Friday, I said that your government is possibly the worst investor in the world. Now, far be it for me to say that my home team is much better...

...but it looks like my home team is doing much better!

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.