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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Jones

From Tesla to forests: what Nest does with 13m UK savers’ pension cash

Nest illustration shows the orange Nest logo, with its trademark egg opening to reveal a car, trees, wind turbines, the Hilton hotel sign and the Apple motif
Nest invests in windfarms, timber forests, and big tech companies such as Apple and Tesla. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images / Alamy

More than 13 million people in the UK belong to it, and it looks after £50bn of their cash – but you may have never heard ofit. The National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) has grown to be the largest workplace pension scheme by member numbers, with more than a third of UK employees enrolled in it .

It’s 20 years ago this year since a government commission recommended creating “a low-cost, national funded pension savings scheme” into which individuals would be “automatically enrolled”. That led to Nest being set up as a publicly owned body to invest people’s pension savings.

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