Photo by James Hose Jr on Unsplash The future is looking rosey for funding but, argues Robert Bilton, there is still longevity, climate change and the future cost of benefits to worry about.
With less than a year until the next round of LGPS valuations at 31 March 2022, one of the questions on most people’s lips will be: “Are we 100% funded?”.
Such a simple question deserves a simple answer—yes, at the 2022 valuation every LGPS fund will be 100% funded.
14 July 2021
Room151’s LGPS Quarterly Webcast
CHINA: GROWTH & ESG
China is the growth opportunity global investors have described as being “too big to miss”. In our next LGPS webcast we ask why China is poised to retain it
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