IPE’s Leaders in Investment podcast: Chris Hitchen – Chair of the Nuclear Liabilities Fund
In this episode of Leaders in Investment, Chris Hitchen, one of the UK’s most experienced pension fund professionals, shares insights from a career spent managing long-term capital and institutional portfolios. As chair of the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, he oversees one of the country’s most genuinely long-term pools of capital. The conversation explores how investors can position portfolios for the future while balancing opportunity, resilience and responsibility.
“It’s natural for us to want to invest in things which will benefit UK citizens.”
The conversation also includes the role of non execs and trustees in institutional investment, why allocations to domestic infrastructure and private markets opportunities can make sense, insights on building out in-house teams and a long-term focused investment culture and private markets across the pension spectrum, including DC.
