Levelling up pension fund investments

Charlotte Moore explores whether DC can really meet the government’s ‘big bang’ aims

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Levelling up pension fund investments

Over the summer the government called upon the UK's asset owners to participate in an "investment big bang" to rebuild the economy after the pandemic and to help "level up" the regional differences.

In particular, policymakers were calling on auto-enrolled schemes to invest in venture capital funds and infrastructure targeted at the UK. There is a mismatch in capital flows. With the introdu...

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