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Heavyweight investors head to Downing Street as science and technology funds shoot up agenda

Asset managers, insurers and venture capitalists met in Downing Street to discuss investment in the UK's science and technology sector

By David Ricketts
Government calls on asset managers to foster recovery gather pace as leaders summoned to meeting with PM and chancellor
Government calls on asset managers to foster recovery gather pace as leaders summoned to meeting with PM and chancellor Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Getty Images

Some of the UK's biggest investors have met with the prime minister and chancellor to discuss how to encourage hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of investment into some of Britain's most innovative companies.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak chaired a roundtable in Downing Street on 24 November with around 20 representatives from the asset management, venture capital, and insurance industries in attendance, Financial News understands.

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