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Simon True: There could be £200bn of opportunities among DB schemes
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Simon True: There could be £200bn of opportunities among DB schemes

Jonathan Stapleton speaks to Clara chief executive Simon True about the challenges the superfund faced last year, its current pipeline of business and its ambitions for the future.

This morning (6 November), Clara Pensions announced that the trustees of the £590m Sears Retail Pension Scheme had agreed to enter into the UK's first ever superfund transaction. The deal - whic...

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