Editing Nobel Prize (section)

==== Foundation capital and cost ====
The capital of the Nobel Foundation today is invested 50% in [[Share capital|shares]], 20% [[Bond (finance)|bonds]] and 30% other [[investments]] (e.g. [[hedge funds]] or [[real estate]]). The distribution can vary by 10 percent.<ref name="dn20121202">{{Cite news |last=Sjöholm/Tt |first=Gustav |date=2 December 2012 |title=Rabatter räddar Nobelfesten |language=no |trans-title=Discounts Save the Nobel Party |work=[[Dagens Nyheter (Norwegian newspaper)|Dagens Nyheter]] |url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/rabatter-raddar-nobelfesten/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 March 2019 |archive-date=6 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906065704/https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/rabatter-raddar-nobelfesten/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the beginning of 2008, 64% of the funds were invested mainly in American and European stocks, 20% in bonds, plus 12% in real estate and hedge funds.<ref name="handelsblatt2008">{{Cite web |title=Nobel-Stiftung: Noble Sorgen |trans-title=Nobel Foundation: Noble Worries |url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/journal/nachrichten/noble-sorgen;2106721;0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704211447/http://www.handelsblatt.com/journal/nachrichten/noble-sorgen;2106721;0 |archive-date=4 July 2009 |access-date=19 March 2019 |language=de |newspaper=[[Handelsblatt]]}}</ref>

In 2011, the total annual cost was approximately 120&nbsp;million [[Swedish krona|kronor]], with 50&nbsp;million kronor as the prize money. Further costs to pay institutions and persons engaged in giving the prizes were 27.4&nbsp;million kronor. The events during the Nobel week in Stockholm and Oslo cost 20.2&nbsp;million kronor. The administration, Nobel [[symposium]], and similar items had costs of 22.4&nbsp;million kronor. The cost of the [[Economic Sciences]] prize of 16.5&nbsp;Million kronor is paid by the [[Sveriges Riksbank]].<ref name="dn20121202" />