Today’s Solutions: August 18, 2026

Norway’s mammoth sovereign wealth fund, which gets its money from Norway’s offshore oil and gas sector, takes an activist approach to its investing when it comes to ethical issues. The sell decision came from the fund’s ethical council. It said the four companies may be responsible for environmental damage linked to the …

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