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National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

The National Employment Savings Trust is a defined contribution workplace pension scheme in the United Kingdom. It was set up to facilitate automatic enrolment as part of the government’s workplace pension reforms under the Pensions Act 2008.

Country

United Kingdom

AUM ($B, AS AT DATE OF ASSET ALLOCATION)

$24

Chief Executive

Helen Dean

Chief Investment Officer

Mark Fawcett

Chair

Brendan McCafferty

Asset allocation

Website

View the annual report

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of December 31, 2021. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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