More of Britain’s pension assets should be used to drive business growth
They are stuck in low-yielding bonds while companies are hungry for capital
Britain is a good place to be a budding entrepreneur. The country’s share of global venture-capital (vc) funding has doubled since 2018, to twice its share of global gdp. One out of every seven dollars the world invests in the earliest-stage “pre-seed” firms is invested in Britain. Although financial markets have taken a hammering this year, British vc funds have record amounts of unspent capital to throw at tomorrow’s winners.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Tiddlers, not titans”
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