The long run on equities finally ended in the 2008 crash. Schemes realised they needed growth assets with far lower volatility than equities.
Since then, schemes have allocated more to alternatives, or considered it. Last year, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) reported that 30% of defined benefit (DB) schemes had invested...
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