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Caution urged on Osborne's infrastructure plan

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Chancellor George Osborne announced his plan to get schemes investing in the future of the country's infrastructure in his Autumn Statement this week.

Osborne dreams of unlocking £20bn of pension fund assets to invest in infra­structure to help "overhaul the physical transport infrastructure of our nation". PwC head of pensions Raj Mody said t...

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