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Nicolai Tangen

19 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2024 by Nicolai Tangen · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Tangen: Market fear can be measured via VIX, media coverage, and expert disagreement
“Fear you can measure in, in, you know, in the VIX index, the volatility index, you can measure well, for instance, during COVID, you can measure it in the amount of media on, on the bad news to which extent specialists disagree with each other, what are the do…”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 16:07 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nicolai Tangen predicts tougher times ahead and difficult investment returns
“I truly think there will be much tougher times ahead. I think it'll be difficult to generate returns, and we need, and everybody needs to know that.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 7:37 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Nicolai Tangen initially wanted to remove the sovereign wealth fund's live ticker
“And I thought before I joined, it's just like, you know what, this is not a good idea. This makes us very short-term in our thinking. We should get this away.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 6:37 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Tangen praises Canadian pension funds and Singapore's GIC as top long-term investors
“You have the Canadians. They are very strong. They are long-term thinkers. They have good institutions, good organizations. You have something like GIC in Singapore. It's very strong.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 14:38 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Tangen: Cosmetics sector is immune to tech disruption due to human vanity
“Well, some, I think some companies and some products are not threatened by technology. I think, for instance, look at cosmetics. You know, women have painted themselves in the face for 2000 years. Do you think they will, do you think they will stop? Do you thi…”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 9:53 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Nicolai Tangen says leader vulnerability only works if employees respect your competence
“I mean, if you are like a complete moron, it doesn't work, ok? You must be genuinely not stupid.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 36:13 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Tangen: Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is the world's most transparent fund
“Now, the Norwegian fund is the most transparent fund out there, and I can say that because we won the awards for being the most transparent fund in the world, so I'm not even bragging, it's just a fact.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 14:53 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Tangen: Inflation requires longer horizons, market share gainers, and contrarian bets
“By becoming more long-term. By focusing in on quality companies which can compound. By looking for market share gainers. And by becoming more contrarian, so taking the opportunities that comes from volatility.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 8:55 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Nicolai Tangen says winners in AI and semiconductor chips are impossible to predict
“Yeah, I think, so I'm not really thinking about technology, because that's a bit too complicated for me. I mean, that's, because that changes so fast, and God knows who's going to be the winner in, in AI, or chips, or these kind of things.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 9:30 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Tangen: Organizations making fast decisions are generally better
“Organizations which make fast decisions are generally better organizations.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 13:21 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tangen: Interest rates will take longer to come down
“Personally, I think it will take longer for rates to come down.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 7:55 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nicolai Tangen had no friends in childhood, alarming his brother
“I didn't have any friends. My brother was really worried that I would perhaps never have any proper future given that I didn't socialize so much.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 0:39 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Nicolai Tangen says inferiority complexes drive success and should be celebrated
“I think inferiority complexes should be really celebrated. I think it's a huge thing. That, that is what drives us, pretty much all of us.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 1:37 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Nicolai Tangen: Time horizons counterintuitively become more patient with age
“So let's say you are 20 years old. You are in such a hurry, ok? Like three months. It's eternity. Now, you get older, I'm 57, I'm soon about to die, suddenly I'm so patient. Why? I mean, I haven't got that many years left compared to a twenty-year-old, yet I'm…”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 12:07 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Tangen: Parents should adopt a hands-off approach after early childhood years
“And then you have been pretty, you work hard on parenting for some, you know, for some years, and then I think it's really hands off. You need to just let them lose, support them in what they do, make sure they know that you're proud.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 34:50 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Tangen: Admitting mistakes as a leader is vital for psychological safety
“Well, the most important thing is to admit mistakes yourself. You have to stand up, admit mistakes. That's the only way to make it safe for other people, and it's very tough.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 35:47 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Nicolai Tangen keeps a countdown clock for his five-year CEO term
“I have a countdown clock in my office showing how many days I've got left on my job. Because it's a five year job. I've got 580 days left.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 13:25 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Tangen: Top investors combine stubbornness with agility to change minds
“And so when you look at the best investors in the world, they are stubborn, because you need to be stubborn and you need to be able to sit with your positions, but when facts change, you need to change your mind. And the combination of stubbornness and agility…”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 25:42 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 4, 2024
Insight
Nicolai Tangen: Money Does Not Create Happiness, Only Freedom
“So I'm, it's not the money that makes you happy, but it's just the kind of freedom it gives you.”
Nicolai Tangen Mar 4, 2024 ▶ 2:31 Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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