LGPS

Cemlyn Foulkes assesses the interim report from Lord Hutton's Public Services Pension Commission from the standpoint of active and pensioner members of the Local Government Pension Scheme

The Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association has attacked coalition plans to hike council worker pension contributions warning the move would lead to mass opt-outs.

Treasury plans to increase public sector employee pension contributions by 3% could destroy the Local Government Pension Scheme, the London Pensions Fund Authority warns.

The £3.2bn Lothian Pension Fund has appointed Northern Trust as its sole custodian.

Scotland's local government pension scheme deficit has more than doubled from £3.8bn to £9bn since 2009, its spending watchdog says.

The £714m Shropshire County Pension Fund has appointed Aon Hewitt as its investment consultant.

Rules protecting Local Government Pension Scheme members outsourced to work in the private sector could be scrapped following the withdrawal of similar benefits for central government employees.

The deficit of the Local Government Pension Scheme has more than doubled to £100bn since the scheme's last triennial valuation, a study shows.

Raising worker contribution rates for local government pension schemes would stoke a wave of industrial action and withdrawals from schemes, unions warn.

Laura Blows looks at the unique challenges for the LGPS within the public sector, the implications of the Hutton report for these schemes and the practicalities of potential reforms