The Oil Fund

Overview

This is a humorous drama TV show centered around the Norwegian Pension Fund, affectionately called Oljefondet. The fund was created to invest the enormous amount of tax renevue from the Norwegian oil and gas industry. The fund is there to secure the future costs of pensioners and the socialist way of free health care amongst other things. The show follows some fictional investors working for the fund investing the billions and more billions according to the rules for ethical investments that the Norwegian politicians put in place. Following these complex ethical guidelines in a big cynical world of big business, creates some interesting complications. Currently the fund owns 1%, well, of the world.

Cast

Thomas Gullestad

Per Grepp

Kathrine Thorborg Johansen

Katrine Halland

Elias Holmen Sørensen

Odd Stormoen

Marit Andreassen

Bjørg Heistad

Evelyn Rasmussen Osazuwa

Anna Smythe

Håkon T. Nielsen

Vidar Wilander

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