Pensions

By Martin Ford | 25 June 2021

Wrexham CBC has voted down a motion to pressure a pension fund into shifting investment away from...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Strathclyde in divestment threat

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2021

Scotland’s largest local government pension fund will drop investments in fossil fuel firms that ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Pension funds urged to play levelling up role

By Martin Ford | 26 May 2021

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds could provide a £16bn boost to levelling up the coun...

FINANCE

Pension fund signs up for retirement planning scheme

25 May 2021

A local authority pension scheme has signed up to help drive a national conversation about retire...

WHITEHALL

Storm brewing over exit payment data demands

By Heather Jameson | 15 April 2021

Government demands for details of senior staff pay-offs have been branded ‘particularly perniciou...

ENVIRONMENT

Council pension funds invest nearly £10bn in fossil fuels

By Laura Sharman | 23 February 2021

Nearly £10bn of local government pension funds are still invested in fossil fuels, new research h...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Back to the future for Big Bang of the North

By Michael Burton | 17 February 2021

A new study on levelling up the North sounds like a return to urban development corporations, say...

Split emerges as exit pay cap case approaches

By Martin Ford | 08 February 2021

Divisions have emerged between the Local Government Association (LGA) and groups challenging the ...

PENSIONS

White van man on... pensioners

03 February 2021

Now all these old people have got their vaccines it’s time they did something useful and I don’t ...

PENSIONS

High Court to hear four exit pay cap legal challenges

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021

Another trade union has been granted permission to challenge the public sector exit pay cap at th...

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