The great awakening: How the financial crisis changed scheme investment

Five years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, Rachel Dalton looks at how scheme investment has advanced

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The financial crash and subsequent crisis of 2008 has been described as the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Hidden risk in complex financial products and mortgage-related products led to a contagion that spread from bank to bank across the globe, forcing governments to step in and save the financial sect...

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