The funding gap of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has improved by £9.2bn since 2013 but last year's difficult market conditions reduced returns to just 0.1%.
According to the 2016 annual report published today by the Scheme Advisory Board (SAB), the total actuarial deficit of the LGPS fell to £37bn as of March 2016, while the funding ratio has rose to 8...
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