The Government Pension Fund of Norway, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, has sustained record losses amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bloomberg. The losses equate to 1.17 trillion Norwegian Krones or $113 billion.
The losses came after the government had to sell devalued assets in order to implement anti-crisis measures.
The fund's shares dropped by 21.1 percent, while the total cost of active assets dropped by 14.6.
2 April 2020, 17:49 GMT
The fund is the largest in the world with a total amount of active assets surpassing one trillion dollars. It's financed from the country's sales of oil and gas, and according to Norwegian law, spendings on current needs can't exceed 4 percent of the total assets.
However, amid low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic, the government has decided to increase the 4 percent threshold to cover the budget deficit.
Last February, the fund returned record profits amounting to nearly 20 percent amid a sharp rise in the world's stock markets.
