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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Phillip Inman

Business leaders urge Reeves to force pension funds to raise UK investments

Rachel Reeves speaking to the media in Downing Street.
The chancellor’s budget is expected to contain a series of initiatives to boost British investment. Photograph: Justin Tallis/Reuters

More than 250 British company bosses have urged Rachel Reeves to use her budget to make UK pension schemes channel extra funds into domestic businesses, increasing private investment by as much as £95bn.

In a letter to the chancellor, business leaders said the government must address a crisis in which pension investment in UK-listed companies has fallen from 53% of total equity holdings in 1997 to 4% this year.

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