31/07/2026
Hi IG 👋
We’re the seven Investment Risk interns at NBIM this summer, and with one week left here’s what we’ve been up to. 🧑💻
So what is Investment Risk?
The fund is invested in thousands of companies, bonds and properties across the world. Investment Risk measures the risk in all of it, and asks the questions that rarely have clean answers: what could go wrong, how badly, and how likely is it? And then turns that into something the people making the decisions can actually use 💡
The seven of us are spread across four teams: market risk measurement, performance measurement, real assets, and credit and counterparty risk, and our projects reflect that spread. We’ve been putting numbers on scenario probabilities and tail risk, building anomaly detection that catches portfolio performance figures which don’t look right, making the valuation of the fund’s properties faster and sharper while digging into the real estate transactions behind them, and developing a methodology to credit-rate infrastructure counterparties that no agency covers. Very different problems, and in every single one of them, a healthy dose of AI agents 🤖
Seven very different projects, but one thing we’re all leaving with: a much better sense of how AI can actually be used as a tool. It does the heavy lifting, while the judgment stays with us.
Next week wraps up the internship, and we can’t wait to present our projects to the leader group and the rest of the organization 🌟
A big thank you to our teams for trusting us with real problems, and for patiently answering every question along the way 🙌
