'The great fund', the Filmin series about the controversial Norwegian pension fund

The streaming platform Filmin surprises us every week with new interesting series. Quality fictions such as Soaring the Skies, MaPa, The Split, Nobel or La Infamia with which Filmin is surprising users. This March 16, El Gran Fondo, a satirical series that tells the story of the people who work in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has premiered. A controversial investment fund that is financed with income derived from gas and oil, the great fund consists of 10 episodes of about 25 minutes in length and is one of those series that hooks from the first episode. This comedy has a certain sarcastic tone that is hooked by the way of telling how in Norway the country’s Welfare State is financed in this particular way, this investment fund that moves huge amounts of money in an unusual way that supposedly these are destined in Norway to support its Welfare State. Funds that other countries like Spain collect through taxes on companies or citizens. In the series, there is a confrontation between those who want to earn more and more with those responsible for the ethics committee that decides on the movements that can be made with all that huge amount of money. An original theme and quite unknown to most viewers.The great backgroundA complex comedyThe great background is a complex comedy that tells how the Norwegian Pension Fund, popularly known as Oljefondet, works. The fund was created to invest the huge amount of tax revenue from the Norwegian oil and gas industry.They try to accumulate this money to defray the immense costs that pensions and free public health care will have in the future, among many other expenses. Is the operation of this fund ethical? Many years ago Norwegian politicians established ethical rules for investments that are not respected on many occasions. The series focuses on some fictitious investors who work for the fund investing billions according to the rules for these types of investments. This has created a cynical and hypocritical system in which the origin of the money is not questioned. Per Grepp (Thomas Gullestad) is in charge of investing the money in the fund trying to obtain the maximum return. The problem is that it does not take into account, for example, if they are companies linked to the arms business or that work with child labor. A good team The directors of the series are Harald Zwart (Shadowhunters: City of Bones , The Karate Kid) and Petter Holmsen. The main protagonists are actors Thomas Gullestad (The Corpse, The Twelfth Man) and Kathrine Thorborg Johansen (Borning: Burning Asphalt, Earthquake) .The great fund is a complex and ironic series perfect to learn the ins and outs of the Norwegian economic system and a interesting plot.