# United Kingdom PEN: ACQ: Corporate securities: & overseas (ended 2018) ()

United Kingdom PEN: ACQ: Corporate securities: & overseas (ended 2018) () was up 8.5% year on year in Q4 2018, compared with 1.0% in Q3 2018.
The level stood at 113,699 £m.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −33.8% (Q4 2008) to 51.6% (Q2 2017), averaging 3.5%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-RYKG.MEASURE-ACQUISITIONS.SECTOR-PENSIONS`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1983-01-01 to 2018-10-01 (144 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/pen-acq-corporate-securities-and-overseas-ended-2018

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q4 2018 | 113,699 £m | 8.5 |
| Q3 2018 | 98,257 £m | 1.0 |
| Q2 2018 | 114,393 £m | 11.1 |
| Q1 2018 | 120,378 £m | 16.1 |
| Q4 2017 | 104,793 £m | 21.9 |
| Q3 2017 | 97,247 £m | 31.0 |
| Q2 2017 | 103,009 £m | 51.6 |
| Q1 2017 | 103,694 £m | 46.4 |
| Q4 2016 | 85,980 £m | 12.8 |
| Q3 2016 | 74,229 £m | −5.2 |
| Q2 2016 | 67,927 £m | −8.7 |
| Q1 2016 | 70,841 £m | −13.5 |
| Q4 2015 | 76,223 £m | −0.8 |
| Q3 2015 | 78,284 £m | 11.2 |
| Q2 2015 | 74,394 £m | 8.6 |
| Q1 2015 | 81,933 £m | 10.6 |
| Q4 2014 | 76,854 £m | 0.4 |
| Q3 2014 | 70,374 £m | −12.4 |
| Q2 2014 | 68,495 £m | −19.7 |
| Q1 2014 | 74,101 £m | −3.3 |
| Q4 2013 | 76,523 £m | 9.6 |
| Q3 2013 | 80,359 £m | 17.6 |
| Q2 2013 | 85,314 £m | 16.0 |
| Q1 2013 | 76,649 £m | −2.2 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-RYKG.MEASURE-ACQUISITIONS.SECTOR-PENSIONS"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-RYKG.MEASURE-ACQUISITIONS.SECTOR-PENSIONS",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```