{"id":206957,"date":"2025-10-17T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:06:21","slug":"uk-pensions-boost-private-investment-but-lag-behind-reeves-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206957\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Pensions Boost Private Investment But Lag Behind Reeves Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">UK pension funds doubled their investment in unlisted equities over the past year, though they remain below the levels needed to meet a pledge to the government to support private businesses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Eleven firms that signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-07-10\/nine-uk-pension-funds-agree-to-invest-5-of-assets-to-startups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the Mansion House Compact<\/a> two years ago had increased allocations to private markets to 0.6% of defined-contribution default funds by February, up from 0.36% a year earlier, according to the Association of British Insurers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK pension funds doubled their investment in unlisted equities over the past year, though they remain below the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[89204,456,84,890,460,4176,13170,80,2346,467,4174,4175,13858,4605,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-206957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-association-of-british-insur","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-city-of-london","tag-debt","tag-finance","tag-fixed-income","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-private-credit","tag-private-equity","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}