Oslo Pensionsforsikring (OPF), Norway’s largest municipal pension fund, says it is investing up to NOK 200 million (EUR 21.3 million) in the first fund launched by a new team of Norwegian asset managers and business people, which is to invest in the country’s technology companies.
The fund — Idekapital Fund 1 — is managed by its founder Anders Brandt; former investment director of Storebrand Asset Management Rune Holen; Kristian Øvsthus, a former partner in consultancy firm Arkwright and Espen Agdestein, who manages the chess player Magnus Carlsen.
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