2065438+In September 2007, the Swedish Nobel Foundation announced that it would increase the prize money of this year's Nobel Prize by 6.5438+0 million Swedish kronor (about 820,000 yuan) and give the winner 9 million kronor (about 7.4 million yuan). Seeing such a generous reward, I instantly had the impulse to be a scientist!

The Nobel Prize was founded in 1900. It has been issued for more than 0/00 years, with an annual bonus of about1000000 USD. Roughly speaking, the Nobel Prize has been awarded at least several hundred million dollars, and the Nobel Prize was only 3 1 10,000 Swedish kronor at the beginning. Why is money not only not spent, but also increasing? (The assets of Nobel Foundation 20 16 reached 4.2 billion)

From 3 1 10,000 to billions, how did the Nobel Fund do it?

The Nobel Foundation divides the fund into two parts, most of which are "bonus funds" (about 28 million kronor); The rest is used to set up "building fund" and "organization fund" to pay the rent of the administrative building and the hall used for the annual award ceremony, as well as the organization expenses of five Nobel Societies.

An important task of the Nobel Foundation is how to make Qian Shengqian win the prize, so as to ensure the amount of the Nobel Prize.

However, because Nobel is quite conservative in the financial field, the will stipulates that the fund can only invest in "safe securities", such as bank deposits and bonds, which makes interest unable to outperform inflation. Coupled with the war, government tax increase and other factors, the foundation's money is getting less and less, and the Nobel Prize was once reduced to 1 14935 kronor 1923.

The major turning point occurred in 1953, and the tax exemption was favorable. The foundation was also allowed to invest in the stock market and real estate, and the investment strategy changed from conservative to positive.

In the next few decades, with the rapid growth of the global stock market and the continuous appreciation of the property market, the assets of the foundation are also soaring, reaching 4.2 billion kronor by 20 16. Among them, the fund's money is mainly invested in stocks (50%), fixed income assets (17%) and alternative assets (33%, such as real estate and hedge funds).