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Government Pension Fund Global´s investments in petroleum equities: a response to White Paper nr. 19

Resaland, Sjur; Riis, Luca Alexander
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2015
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Abstract
As Norway possesses a large petroleum wealth, there has been calls for a change regarding

the Government Pension Fund Global´s (GPFG´s) investments in petroleum equities based

on diversification considerations. This subject has been debated by the Ministry of Finance

in White Paper nr. 19, where the conclusion was not to alter the GPFG´s investment strategy

as no long-term relationship between the oil price and oil and gas stocks was discovered.

Evaluating the investment strategy based on oil price exclusively, and ignoring other factors

that impact the inflow of petroleum revenues, has been criticized.

The main objective of our thesis has been to uncover if there is a long-term relationship

between the development in oil and gas stocks and the Norwegian state´s petroleum related

income. If a long-term relationship exists, it could suggest a divestment in GPFG´s oil and

gas investments to reduce Norway´s exposure to petroleum related shocks.

In our thesis we present relevant research and theory, and illustrate the importance of the

petroleum industry for the Norwegian economy. We have applied the Engle and Granger

two-step error correction model to determine whether there exists a long-term relationship

between oil and gas indexes and the petroleum related state income.

Our results show a statistically significant long-term relationship between petroleum related

state income and two global oil and gas indexes. When testing for the relationship between

individual components of petroleum related state income and oil and gas indexes, our results

vary. Our findings suggest that the stock price development of global integrated oil

companies share the strongest long-term relationship with petroleum related state income.

On this basis, and with regard to wider national wealth considerations, we conclude that the

GPFG should consider a sale of its holdings in global integrated oil companies

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