Tracie Langley, Cornwall’s s151 officer, looks back at another year dominated by the pandemic, budgets, elections and “you-would-just-never-believe-it” stories. I can’t say I bounced out of bed on that first[…]
Sponsored article: William MacLeod explores the ‘net zero’ investment opportunities in renewable energy and the built environment. If COP26 emphasised anything, it was that the challenge to meet net zero[…]
With equity markets on a knife-edge heading into 2022, we tasked Border to Coast’s Ryan Boothroyd and Anthony Petalas, to set out plausible bull and bear cases over the next[…]
It’s been quite a year in LGPS. The scheme has been confronting climate, government’s desire for an investment “Big Bang”, cryptocurrencies, aiding placemaking and supporting the creation of national infrastructure.[…]
Jill Davys considers next years LGPS valuations and implications for cashflow, risk managment and ESG. It feels like only yesterday when the sense of relief at getting 2019 valuations signed[…]
Elizabeth M. Carey writes that LGPS funds should target levels above 100% before anyone begins to feel comfortably funded. In an age when many people are living longer and healthier,[…]
Stephen Sheen looks back over the past 12 months and reveals how it should guide regulators in the New Year. I have just looked back at the article I wrote[…]
When the chancellor delivered this autumn’s spending review it was not without merit. But despite claims of a three-year settlements, experts worry funding structures remain distinctly short term. Despite October’s[…]
Risk management in the Local Government Pension Scheme is a perennial issue. Susan Black writes how the ghosts who haunted Scrooge can teach us something about risk management now. “I[…]
It’s been an eventful year for treasury as it adpated to the pandemic and the changing economic landscape. David Blake takes a look at the year’s big treasury events. 2021[…]
