Keeping it simple?

Jonathan Stapleton asks if we are moving back to a simpler way of doing things

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Last week, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) proposed a radical shake-up of the way in which the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) manages its assets.

It believes £85bn of actively managed equity assets in the LGPS should be moved to passive management via a common investment vehicle. It says this would save council pension funds £420m a year in ...

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