Brunel hits back following government pooling decision

LGPS pool ‘strongly rejects’ suggestion that pool weakness was to blame for MHCLG call

Jonathan Stapleton
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Brunel hits back following government pooling decision

Brunel Pensions Partnership has hit back at the government’s decision to reject its pooling proposals – saying the criteria used to select it “remained unclear” given its progress across all the key pooling priorities set out when pooling began.

  The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool's announcement comes after Brunel and Access both had their pooling plans rejected by the government last month – with the Ministry of Housing, ...

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