Joshua Pond: Pension investments will suffer 'long Covid'

Societal inequalities will outlive virus

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Joshua Pond looks at the long-lasting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of pension fund investments in his latest article for Professional Adviser

The economic fall out created by the Covid-19 pandemic has not been the great equaliser so many had claimed it would be back in March. Health outcomes have varied across the spectrum of societal groups and the economic fallout will be much the same. Existing wealth inequalities will widen, and new ones will be created as generational and occupational disparities increase, all of which ultimately impact future pension outcomes. Generational disparity The young, although relatively unaffected by the virus from a health perspective, will be dealt the greatest burden from an economic po...

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