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...The pension fund announcement is of a similar ilk. UK pensions have lower allocations to domestic equities than pension funds in many other countries....
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...Mutual funds got another boost in the 1980s, as big companies started shifting away from defined benefit pensions....
...investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and central banks....
...That figure is roughly one-tenth of 1 per cent of BlackRock $10tn in assets under management, and some Republican state pension funds still have well north of $20bn parked with the money manager....
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...Note, however, that this cannot be accessed until the legal pension access age....
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