Defined contribution pension funds boost real assets allocations, says Aviva Investors research

More than two-thirds (69 percent) of corporate defined contribution (DC) pension funds expect to increase allocations to real assets over the next two years, up from 51 percent a year earlier, according to Aviva Investors in its sixth Real Assets Study research paper.

Conversely, just 6 percent of DC funds anticipate decreasing their allocations to illiquid asset classes over the same period compared to 29 percent of respondents in 2022, according to the study, which captures responses from 500 institutional investors, including corporate DB and DC pension plans, public pension