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UK VC needs scale-up firepower to retain innovation
Aviva and L&G highlight risks of losing value overseas while others call for cultural change and government support
UK pension funds weigh life sciences VC
Healthcare and life sciences are attracting institutional capital – but governance and fiduciary challenges remain barriers for both LGPS and DC funds
UK climate tech VC start-ups prove commercial case
Net-zero tech drives high-quality job creation and productivity, as investors back-deep tech solutions across the energy transition
DC industry formulates solutions to VC challenges
Consultants offer different perspectives on fund structures, educational requirements and the suitability of opportunities
Investing at the crossroads of technology, security and climate
Alex van Someren on deep tech, national security and how investors can navigate the innovation frontier
Innovate UK calls for deeper investor partnerships
Attracting risk capital is essential to scaling innovative companies in the British innovation ecosystem
Busting the myths that keep UK pensions away from VC
Four persistent myths potentially prevent UK pension funds from accessing one of the most dynamic parts of private markets. Venture capital (VC) has long…
Bridging the clean energy scale-up gap
Octopus Energy Generations’s Zoe Reich speaks to PMP about why the next phase of the energy transition depends on investment in technology and why investors should view it as a commercial opportunity rather than a policy-driven necessity.
Seizing opportunities in the net-zero economy
Beverley Gower-Jones, managing partner of Clean Growth Fund, talks to PMP about the scale of the clean economy, the investment opportunities, and why innovation…
Private markets fill in for the absence of IPOs
Mercia CEO says private markets are now a key route to liquidity for companies inside and outside the golden triangle Private markets are…
Church of England ramps up social investments
Vanessa Morphet tells PMP about how the Church’s social impact fund is building up its allocations across social housing and climate change adaptation and resilience
USS provides masterclass in private markets
The UK’s leading non-governmental DB pension scheme investor in private markets talks to PMP about building its exposures over almost twenty years
