LGPS takes a big leap towards cost transparency

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.
In recent years the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has come under a lot of scrutiny for not having a complete picture of what it pays asset managers. Like the whole UK pension sector, a world...
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