This SPP Paper is a response to government plans to introduce a power in the Pension Schemes Bill that will allow them to dictate how pension funds invest by requiring a prescribed percentage of investment in UK productive assets.
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This thought provoking SPP paper provides a detailed analysis of the challenges in ensuring UK pension schemes invest more in their domestic market, whilst also exploring a range of options as to how these challenges might best be overcome.
Amongst other productive finance issues, this response highlights that the SPP agrees that scale can deliver improved investment but that there are risks, which must be guarded against; that legislative change is necessary to better facilitate consolidation and that for the LGPS, asset pooling has been successful but there is more to do. Read on for further information...
Tags: government review, investment, pension, Pensions, productive finance,