Jason Fletcher

London CIV and Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) have announced the launch of a global equity core fund.

LGPS Central has fully invested its inaugural private equity fund eight months on from its launch.

LGPS Central has selected three external managers for its emerging markets equity multi-manager fund.

The local authority pool for nine central midlands funds has appointed Duncan Sandford, Mike Hardwick, Omar Ghafur and Michael Marshall as investment directors.

Jason Fletcher has been appointed chief investment officer (CIO) of the £40bn pool for nine midlands-based Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds.

The West Midlands Pension Fund is well on the way to full transparency, and has already used it to challenge managers on fees and exit high cost funds, CIO Jason Fletcher tells Stephanie Baxter.

As a transparency code is launched for the Local Government Pension Scheme, Stephanie Baxter looks at how it could set a gold standard across the industry.