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Bloomberg: Icelandic pension funds want to invest more in foreign markets – for excess funds. So much money has accumulated in it that there is nowhere to invest it, writes Bloomberg. Icelandic pension funds hold twice as much assets as the country's economy, so the government is considering buying more securities on foreign stock markets. According to the current legislation, the share of foreign holdings in the assets of Icelandic pension funds cannot exceed 50 percent. Icelandic Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson said that citizens' retirement savings amount to 6.4 trillion kronor ($ 49 billion). “Of course, we cannot limit all investment opportunities to the domestic market,” the minister said. In 2020, Icelandic pension funds increased their share of their assets in foreign markets to 35 percent – 11 percent more than in 2010. Some funds approached the domestic limits for foreign investments and were forced to stop investing. In this

Former Zenit footballer Roman Maksimyuk: lost everything he earned in the casino Former footballer of Zenit St. Petersburg and Ukraine Maksimyuk told that he suffered from gambling addiction. This is reported by Fanday. According to the player, his addiction to the casino has completely ruined him. He stressed that he had lost all the money. Now, according to Maksimyuk, he works as a loader. The Ukrainian also said that he bought three apartments in Ivano-Frankovsk for the bonus for the victory with Zenit in the 1999 Russian Cup. Later, all this property had to be sold for the sake of one apartment in Kiev. During the divorce, Maksimyuk left his living space to his ex-wife. Maksimyuk played with Zenit from 1998 to 1999. He also has five matches for the Ukrainian national team. The midfielder ended his career in 2011.

“112”: empty bottles of alcohol and drugs were found in the room of the deceased Dmitry Ishaev dead Dmitry Ishaev, the son of ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Viktor Ishaev, investigators found empty bottles of alcohol and drugs. Such details are disclosed by the Telegram channel “112”. The cause of death of a 46-year-old man was myocardial infarction. According to the channel, the deceased was a regular guest of the hotel, where he often came and drank. Earlier it was reported that Ishaev was found dead in a hotel in Khabarovsk. According to local media reports, the man had heart problems before. Viktor Ishaev was the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory from 1991 to 2009. On February 17, Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court sentenced the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory to a suspended sentence for embezzlement of 7.5 million rubles.

One of the richest people in Russia has set a world fishing record Russian angler Ilya Shcherbovich has set a world record for catching Arctic char. This was reported on the website of the International Sport Fishing Association (IGFA). Related materials00: 06 – 15 February 2017 Lords of the SeasPhotographers showed the extraordinary beauty of the underwater world kilogram Sherbovich caught while fishing in Taimyr at the end of July 2021. It took him seven minutes to get the fish out of the water. After weighing and photographing she was released back into the river. The new record was registered in November 2021. Sherbovich is the president of the UCP investment group and one of the richest people in Russia. In 2020, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $ 750 million. He holds 15 world fishing records, and nine of them are still held. In 2021, he set two IGFA