HMT: QE has boosted schemes and cut risk

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The Treasury has brushed off criticism that monetary policy is damaging schemes by claiming quantitative easing has boosted scheme fund values and reduced investment risk.

Delegates at the Prof­essional Pensions investment conference, held last week in London, heard the Bank of England's £325bn asset purchase programme had boosted the value of assets invested in by p...

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