Joanne Segars

Following its April launch, the Midlands pool is well on the road to becoming a full-service asset manager. Andrew Warwick-Thompson speaks to Stephanie Baxter about the challenges of hiring and maintaining relationships

The LGPS Central pool has opened for business with 11 mandates spanning £12bn of assets as the government's pooling deadline arrives.

The pool set up by nine central midlands local authority pension funds has been given the green light by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an alternative investment fund manager.

Now Pensions has appointed Dalriada Trustees to its trustee board in order to resolve historic data issues, while Joanne Segars will also join later this year.

Julian Mund will take over from Joanne Segars as chief executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has announced that Richard Butcher will succeed Lesley Williams who steps down as chair later this year.

Andrew Warwick-Thompson will step down as executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator to join the £40bn LGPS Central as chief executive.

Outgoing Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) chief executive Joanne Segars has been appointed non-executive chairwoman of the Central local government pension scheme (LGPS) pool.

This week's top stories include speculation about what the snap general election may mean for pensions, and Bernard Matthews' owners accused by MPs of throwing out a deal to save the DB scheme for their own benefit.

Joanne Segars is stepping down as chief executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) after leading it for more than 10 years.