Retirement
Point where a person ceases employment permanently
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| November 2023 | The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board switched the index for its international fund to exclude investments in companies in Hong Kong and mainland China. |
| July 2022 | Federal employees gained the option to invest in mutual funds with holdings in sanctioned Chinese companies. |
| June 1 2022 | Accenture Federal Services (AFS) implemented and began managing the Mutual Fund Window (MFW), allowing participants to access additional mutual funds under specific eligibility criteria. |
| March 8 2022 | Excluded Li-Ning for human rights abuse. |
| December 1 2021 | Carine Smith Ihenacho, the fund's head of Governance and Compliance, announced that portfolio companies will be asked to take more specific action on climate change. |
| March 2021 | The Government Pension Fund began examining whether companies in its portfolio had used forced labor from Xinjiang internment camps. |
| May 2020 | The United States Department of Labor issued a directive ordering the TSP to halt plans to invest in Chinese stocks. |
| November 2019 | U.S. senators Marco Rubio and Jeanne Shaheen introduced the Taxpayers and Savers Protection Act to force divestment from unaudited Chinese companies. |
| March 8 2019 | Ministry of Finance recommended divestiture from oil and gas exploration and production holdings, following the 2017 Lofoten Declaration. |
| 2017 | Ravindra Deo succeeds Gregory Long as executive director. |
| 2017 | The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board made a controversial decision to mirror an index investing in unaudited Chinese companies and companies sanctioned by the U.S. |
| 2017 | Norway's population reached 5.2 million people, highlighting the context of the Government Pension Fund's significance relative to the country's small population size. |
| September 2017 | The fund exceeded US$1 trillion in value for the first time, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2002. |
| 2016 | Norges Bank decided to exclude 52 coal companies from the fund. |
| 2016 | The fund made its first-ever withdrawal in its history. |
| September 30 2016 | ST Engineering was reinstated to the Government Pension Fund of Norway. |
| September 7 2016 | Excluded Duke Energy and 3 subsidiaries for risk of severe environmental damage. |
| 2015 | Ravindra Deo joins the FRTIB as Chief Investment Officer. |
| May 2015 | Norwegian political members agreed to divest $945 million from coal assets. |
| 2014 | The fund divested from 53 coal companies worldwide, including 16 in the US, 13 in India, and 3 in China, reducing coal holdings by 5% to $9.7 billion. |
| December 2014 | Dongfeng Group was reinstated to the fund. |
| May 2014 | The Central Bank governor proposed raising the stock investment rate to 70%. |
| March 2014 | A parliamentary panel was appointed to investigate potential divestment of coal assets, with recommendations released in December 2014. |
| 2013 | In the second quarter, the sovereign fund voted in 6,078 general meetings and 239 shareholder proposals on environmental and social issues, demonstrating increased corporate governance involvement. |
| March 2 2013 | United Technologies Corp was reinstated to the fund. |
| January 11 2013 | BAE Systems plc, Finmeccanica S.p.A., and FMC Corporation were reinstated to the fund. |
| December 6 2011 | The Government Pension Fund of Norway placed Alstom under observation due to risk of gross corruption, signaling the fund's commitment to ethical investment practices. |
| September 30 2011 | FMC Corporation was excluded for producing phosphate in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. |
| January 2011 | Currency purchasing practice was suspended. |
| January 31 2011 | Announcement made that foreign currency purchases would also be suspended in February. |
| 2010 | The Norwegian government planned to begin investing up to 5 percent of the fund in real estate. |
| November 2010 | The fund increased its daily foreign currency purchases to 800 million kroner. |
| October 2010 | Government Pension Fund of Norway began spending 600 million Norwegian kroner daily on purchasing foreign currencies. |
| January 19 2010 | Ministry of Finance announced the exclusion of 17 tobacco companies from the fund, resulting in a $2 billion divestment - the largest ethical divestment in the fund's history. |
| January 19 2010 | Excluded multiple tobacco companies including Altria Group Inc, British American Tobacco Plc, Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, Philip Morris International Inc, and others for tobacco production. |
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