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Three days of questioning LGPS from a member’s perspective!
I have been to PLSA events in the Cotswold Water Parks in years gone by but this year’s has switched to Wybsoton Lakes north of Luton. This choice of location seems to benefit those with access to a car, … Continue reading
How about getting your DC pots paid as DB pension? You can do it at the LGPS!!!
I am quoting from the Local Government Pension Scheme’s member website. Transferring in If you have built up pension benefits in the past, you may be able to transfer them to your LGPS pension account. Transferring your pension is not … Continue reading
Will LGPS remain woke in Reform pension committees?
I am rich enough to share an article by Toby Nangle in today’s digital FT. The big idea is saved to the end but you get the gist throughout, Reform matters in local Government and local government pensions are important … Continue reading
Too easy – too long – LGPS finds the going’s now tough!
Phil Triggs: Next steps for LGPS after pool merger shock This is a great article and one I don’t want to much more than admire, it’s author- Phil Triggs is the main man in LGPS and he tells things like … Continue reading
Companies need open banking – not LGPS – to offer staff pensions.
Those who read this blog may be supplemented this weekend by people who enjoy fire and brimstone for here is Jnamdoc opening his heart on the need for a pension system that provides pensions to everyone. This is a comment … Continue reading
Access and Brunel told to pack it in; a taste of things to come?
Brunel and Access have been told to merge with others and not waste time and money thinking about alternatives. This is pretty brutal stuff and the answer to separate pools is brilliantly put forward by what has been delivered over … Continue reading
Britain not the Turkeys should win the pooling debate at LGPS
The FT finds that the 8 investment pools managing the LGPS Pension don’t want to be ONE. I am not surprised but I am disappointed. (sharing link) The eight investment vehicles that manage pension assets for town halls in England … Continue reading
How political can LGPS get! Let’s rid it of localism.
The Andrew Gwynne affair seems to have something to do with pensions, as Michael Crick reports. Tameside runs the Greater Manchester local government scheme, the largest in the UK. The gov want it to invest for growth but local councillors … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, Financial services, LGPS, pension, Pensions, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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Can the LGPS please set out its funding position to ordinary tax-payers.
There is a row in Birmingham between some professors and the executive of Birmingham and it has been a matter for the Birmingham Post. I wrote about it earlier in the year and was sent the paper (which being in … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Joanne Donnelly, LGPS, pension, Pensions
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Kensington’s pension scheme to fund Grenfell relief
The Grenfell tower still stands burnt out on Kensington’s deprived boundaries. Yesterday it was announced that the tower would be pulled down. A more important to those who live with family and friends dead from the incident is that there … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, Defined benefit pension plan, LGPS
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