{"id":903275,"date":"2026-11-02T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903275\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:04:15","slug":"from-pensions-to-quantum-uk-retirement-savings-back-britains-deeptech-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903275\/","title":{"rendered":"From pensions to quantum: UK retirement savings back Britain’s deeptech ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottish Widows<\/a>, Aberdeen Investments<\/a> and IP Group<\/a> today announced their first investments to connect workplace pension savings with high-growth, innovative UK science and technology companies via the CG Scottish Widows Growth LTAF (the \u2018Fund\u2019). <\/p>\n

The Fund is amongst the first UK pension schemes to actively allocate members\u2019 capital to UK venture growth by connecting patient institutional capital with high-potential British businesses. <\/p>\n

The Fund\u2019s initial investments:<\/p>\n

Oxford Quantum Circuits<\/a>, which is building commercially available quantum computing systems;
\nQuantum Motion<\/a>, which is building scalable silicon-based quantum computers designed for mass adoption;
\nNyobolt<\/a>, whose ultra-fast-charging battery technology is advancing high-performance energy storage; and
\nGenomics Limited<\/a>, which is applying AI, machine learning and large-scale genetic datasets to transform preventative healthcare and drug discovery. <\/p>\n

Together, these investments show how pension capital can help category-defining UK companies move from scientific leadership to commercial scale. <\/p>\n

Aberdeen Investments, which manages the growth sub-fund for Scottish Widows, has appointed IP Group to manage a UK Venture growth portfolio within the fund, helping bring private markets exposure to workplace pension savers. <\/p>\n

It demonstrates a model that can be expanded over time, increasing the flow of long-term pension capital into high-growth UK businesses, as part of the Fund\u2019s broader global private markets remit. The mandate is designed to support stronger retirement outcomes for members and address a critical constraint on the UK innovation economy: the availability of meaningful follow-on funding for companies ready to commercialise and expand. <\/p>\n

Peter Fitzgerald, Chief Investment Officer, Scottish Widows, said: <\/p>\n

“We believe pension savers should be able to benefit from the growth and innovation taking place across the UK. <\/p>\n

Our proposition helps connect our workplace pension customers’ long-term savings with some of Britain’s most innovative, high-growth companies, giving them access to investment opportunities that have traditionally been available mainly to institutional investors.” <\/p>\n

Nalaka De Silva, Head of Private Markets Solutions, Aberdeen Investments, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The UK has no shortage of scientific excellence and does not lack entrepreneurship or talent to develop globally relevant ideas. <\/p>\n

What competitive companies have lacked is sufficient pools of patient domestic capital to help them expand and grow. This partnership turns intent into investment.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish Widows, Aberdeen Investments and IP Group today announced their first investments to connect workplace pension savings with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-903275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}