NORWAY - The Government Pension Fund - Global, also known as the Oil Fund, said its end of year results for 2008 were the worst in its history, with a total loss of -23.3%.
The fund, which invests the country's considerable oil wealth as a buffer for future pension payments, has made an average annual return over the past decade of just 1% and ended the year with asse...
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