Incentivise longer-term DC investing to help big bang

Kerrin Rosenberg says the timeframe of private assets is a barrier for DC schemes

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Kerrin Rosenberg is chief executive at Cardano Risk Management
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Kerrin Rosenberg is chief executive at Cardano Risk Management

Earlier this month the government wrote to the UK investment industry, encouraging an investment ‘big bang’ in illiquid assets to boost the UK’s economic recovery.

This is not the first time the government has called on pension funds to invest in British infrastructure. Indeed, this was one of the motivations for the Myners Review in 2001. 20 years on, the fu...

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