Trygve Hegnar (born 6 October 1943) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

businessperson, investor and chief editor of the business magazines '' Kapital'' and ''

Finansavisen ''Finansavisen'' is a Norwegian language, Norwegian business newspaper published by Hegnar Media in Oslo, Norway. History and profile ''Finansavisen'' was first published on 1 October 1992 by Trygve Hegnar, who is also editor-in-chief. The paper ...

'', founded by Hegnar himself in 1971 and 1992 respectively. He is a billionaire in NOK (Norwegian krone).

Early life

Hegnar was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. He became Norwegian champion in

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with the club SK Arild in 1964, and played for the Norwegian national team at the

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. He studied in

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, and graduated as an

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. He started his career as a researcher at the

Institute of Transport Economics The Institute of Transport Economics (Transportøkonomisk institutt –TØI) is a national, Norwegian institution for multidisciplinary transport research. Its mission is to develop and disseminate transportation knowledge of scientific quality an ...

upon his return to Norway.

Career

He founded the business magazine ''Kapital'' in 1971, which became known for its revealing market news from anonymous writers (often student friends of Hegnar). Hegnar found a particular interest in, and wrote a biography of industrialist

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, and later acquired Tandberg's villa which he turned into the headquarters of ''Kapital''. According to Hegnar, he made his first million NOK in 1976, which he used on the short-lived failed tabloid paper ''Blikk'' in 1977. In 1992 Hegnar used his 26 million NOK profits from selling his shares in ''

Dagens Næringsliv ''Dagens Næringsliv'' (Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed i ...

'' to establish his own rival business newspaper ''Finansavisen''. Hegnar's fortune was estimated by ''Kapital'' at 2 billion NOK in 2000, most of which dates from his ownership in the

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(formerly Kloster Cruise with ownership in Vard) from the 1980s, which he sold to

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. According to himself he initially invested 5 million NOK in 1981, followed by some more, until he sold his shares for 672 million NOK in 1999; roughly a hundred-fold profit.

References

External links

Hegnar Online
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