The top stories this week were the pensions regulator warning about new master trusts and revealing a big board shake-up, while the LGPS pooling picture became clearer.
Local government pension funds for South Yorkshire and Tyne & Wear have joined a collaboration group led by Cumbria, East Riding and Surrey to pool investments.
DB schemes will not vanish from FTSE 250 companies in the next 12 months according to PP research.
A group of local authorities have joined forces under a major project to tell the government how the local government pension scheme (LGPS) should be pooled.
PP looks at the LGPS pools emerging as the government's deadline looms.
The North Yorkshire Pension Fund (NYPF) has confirmed it is joining the local government pension investment pool led by East Riding, Cumbria, and Surrey.
Details are emerging of a cost transparency and disclosure code for asset managers that invest on behalf of the local government pension scheme (LGPS).
State pension reform could cost local authorities and public sector contractors £1bn if the government forces them to pay for inflation protection, according to Mercer.
Pooling the local government pension scheme (LGPS) into infrastructure-focused funds is mere tinkering and will not be enough to repair its deficit hole, according to Michael Johnson.
Centre for Policy Studies research fellow Michael Johnson has proposed seven ways to make the local government pension scheme more sustainable.