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Pension funds’ UK investment pledge conditioned on clearing regulatory obstacles

By Phoebe Seers ( May 13, 2025, 14:20 GMT | Comment) -- A voluntary pledge outlined today by 17 major pension providers to allocate more funds to UK companies lands shortly before a major review of pensions investments that could mandate such an approach. While seeking to pre-empt something more draconian, signatories have also made it clear that the government and regulators have to clear barriers to investment first: namely the Consumer Duty, and a pending "value for money" framework.A clutch of the UK's largest workplace pension providers have signed up to a voluntary pledge to channel more investments into private UK businesses, just before the government is expected to publish a report which could recommend mandating such an approach....

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