How UK companies are embracing technological innovation

Pandemic has thrown up opportunities

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Whether giant corporation or individual consumer, technology’s integration with our lives has been accelerated by the pandemic.

Innovation has been a key driver of this, and we see indirect and direct opportunities to gain exposure to this in both public and private equity markets. Physical and financial health For several years the healthcare sector has adopted technology across different patient care settings, and the need for this has been made abundantly clear by the global pandemic. For example, Cera is a technology-enabled private healthcare company which has grown rapidly to become one of the largest home care providers in the UK.  The company has pioneered digital services, data analytics technolo...

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