A double whammy for LGPS

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Andrew Short looks at the number of threats to the cashflows of the Local Government Pension Scheme

The first public sector pension in Britain was awarded in 1684 when a senior Port of London official became too ill to carry on. He retired on a pension worth half his salary, which was entirely...

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