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Local Pensions Partnership: What we have learned from pooling

29 March 2018 • 7 min read

The LPP pool was one of the first to emerge from the Local Government Pension Scheme. Michael O'Higgins speaks to Stephanie Baxter about the journey towards pooling

The Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) has been on quite a journey during its first three years of existence. Back in 2015 - a year before the government decided the local government pension funds...

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