UK pension funds to overweight allocations to gold and silver as part of 'commodity super cycle'

Hope William-Smith
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More than three quarters of UK pension funds expect to go overweight in allocations to commodities such as precious and industrial metals in the next year, according to NTree.

The investor network found 78% of surveyed 50 UK pension funds - which together hold a total £76bn in assets - assumed this would be their response to a burgeoning "commodity super cycle". It sa...

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