Midlands LGPS pool commits to cost transparency

LGPS Central has become the fourth local authority pensions pool to sign up to the code of cost transparency.
The Midlands-based asset manager, which was set up earlier this year to pool the assets of nine local pension funds with around £40bn in total, follows in the footsteps of Brunel Pension Partnership, the...
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