Can pension funds help finance infrastructure investment?

There is a great need to find more ways to finance a big increase in UK infrastructure investment. One way to do this might be for pension funds to allocate more money to infrastructure projects, provided this can be done without reducing investor returns. The government is already encouraging consolidation of pension funds and, perhaps, encouragement and incentives to increase infrastructure investment could, if properly managed, get more infrastructure built and also boost investor returns. This roundtable discussion will be led by Lauren Edwards MP, Co-Chair of the Insurance and Financial Services All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG); Co-Chair of the Skills, Employment and Careers APPG, and member of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.