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By Howard Mustoe
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Perhaps during lockdown, you ve been tempted to do some financial spring cleaning and checked in on a private pension. But do you know what companies you re actually investing in?
If you do, you are probably in a minority, according to Simon Harrington, senior policy adviser at the PIMFA, the trade association for firms that provide investment management and financial advice.
Part of it is to do with automatic enrolment. Since 2012, workers in most companies have been automatically signed up to a workplace pension without having to lift a finger.
This has swelled the number of people with a workplace pension by about 8.5 million to 19.2 million.