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Border to Coast boosts private market investments

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Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has committed a further £1.2bn to private market assets including infrastructure, private equity and private credit funds.

The investment forms part of a £2.7bn private markets programme announced in July 2021 and will bring the total assets within Border to Coast’s private markets programme to £5.7bn.

Border to Coast is one of the UK’s largest public sector pension pools with funds totalling £55.7bn across 11 local government pension funds.

According to Mark Lyon, head of internal management at Border to Coast: “Investing in private markets is an effective way for our partner funds to diversify their investments, generate stable cash flows and benefit from long-term capital growth.”

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