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Norway: huge sovereign wealth fund asks companies to respect animal welfare

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world with around 1.7 trillion euros in assets, has urged the companies in which it invests to respect animal welfare, a development welcomed by its defenders. “We are updating our expectations of companies in terms of sustainability and we have recently included animal welfare,” Caroline Eriksen, a fund manager, said in an email to AFP. In practice, the fund which weighs nearly