Calls to merge LGPS into five £30bn superfunds

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Local Government Pension Scheme leaders and pension academics have called for a merger of 101 town hall pension funds into five standalone schemes to improve efficiency.

A letter, signed by Hammersmith and Fulham council leader Stephen Greenhalgh, East Sussex council leader Peter Jones and professors Andrew Clare and David Blake from Cass Business School, calls for...

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