LGPS 'should adopt outcomes-based approach' to improve governance

Stephanie Baxter
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Local government funds should ditch prescribed governance models and move instead towards an outcomes-based approach with minimum standards, a report has proposed.

This is the conclusion of research conducted by Hymans Robertson and commissioned by the Scheme Advisory Board (SAB), which looked at how governance is working in the LGPS and whether it could be s...

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