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Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) have invested £60m in a UK renewable energy project.

The chief executive of Royal Mail Pension Trustees has urged pension funds to work together more and called for smaller schemes to appoint joint chief investment officers (CIOs).

Strathclyde Pension Fund has made its biggest ever investment in UK green infrastructure by putting £50m into offshore wind farms via the government-backed Green Investment Bank (GIB).

Mike Webb has been hired as an associate by City Noble to develop the firm's defined contribution (DC) advisory offering.

Michael O'Higgins has been appointed chairman of the £10bn asset and liability management (ALM) partnership between Lancashire County Pension Fund (LCPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA).

The chancellor's shock announcement that local government pensions will be pooled into regional funds to boost UK infrastructure means yet more upheaval for the scheme, finds Stephanie Baxter

As local government pension funds will be forced to pool investments, PP looks at the different options and how London councils chose their pooled structure.

London CIV's chief executive tells PP it is almost open for business

Top stories on the site this week include plans to merge the LGPS into six 'wealth funds', a legal challenge to make schemes equalise death benefits for same-sex couples, and a growing deficit at Tesco.

A group of local government pension funds in the South West are exploring pooling all their investments into a £19bn regional Collective Investment Vehicle (CIV).