What drives UK defined benefit pension funds' investment behaviour?
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Pension funds; procyclicality;JEL classification:
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2018-10-15 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-EUR-2018-10-15 (Microeconomic European Issues)
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