For a long time, Morten has got partnership with his childhood friend, Erik Henriksen. Indeed, they used to play together in Heggedal, Asker. Today, Erik Henriksen lives in Monaco and has become a very powerful business man in Finances, a multi-millionnaire man in banking, but also in shipping and offshore. As a consequance, Erik has advised Morten many times in the past on his projects, in particular on Morten's Production companies, Compass Point and Swerve. But Morten needed a Financial manager so he got partnership with Atle Kingen, a Norwegian industrial manager. But Sverre Lars Flatby, another Norwegian Financial business man and old friend of Morten has been managing all the personal projects of Morten for several years now.

Swerve A/S has three main sources of income. One is publishing, which incorporates the copyright of the songs, among other things. The second is the artist Morten Harket himself, and the last thing is using the name Morten Harket as a brand name. Obviously, Morten has got many projects for Swerve in Music industry among other things. For example, He wishes he could gain more control over the chain of money. Today, an artist will be left with only 15% of the price of a CD in the record-store. That is the same as 12 kroner per CD.

Swerve A/S also gets interest in downloaded music on the web and mp3. Morten isn't against that process to the contrary of many record companies and other artists. Harket claims that the activity should not be regarded as illegal, but rather as a market tool.

Morten had also opened his official websie during his solo carrier but closed it since a-ha comeback. The site is currently out of order but still exists. www.mortenharket.com.

Harket also has other projects, outside the music industry. Morten has got other unknown skills such as knifes and boats designs.

In the end, Harket has endless ressources ...who knows what's next ?

Harket also got investment on the Stock Exchange for about 1 or 2 millions krones.  Indeed, in 1997, he bought shares in OPTICOM company and more precisely Fast Search & Transfer Company (FAST), Norwegian computer-company. When FAST was extracted out of Opticom, he was stuck with 3.400 FAST-shares. He sold the shares, however, for 100 kroner per share, when a conflict arose between TONO and FAST. When FAST was extracted from Opticom in the spring of 1998, the share had an estimated value of 4 kroner. FAST has its own search engine for music on the internet.

So Harket gained a lot of money in very little time. Besides, unless Morten decided to sell all his shares, he kept a closed eye on FAST development. Indeed, at the beginning of 2000, LYCOS, one of the biggest search domain on the web, has been interested in getting FAST as a partnership by creating a new search domain specialized in Multimedia and music on the web with www.alltheweb.com. Since then, FAST keeps on increasing with WAP technology on mobile phones for instance.

To follow up FAST economic evolution: http://www.fastsearch.com/