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Last month I went to a well attended public meeting on this topic in Forest Gate Coffee7 and a Chatham House rules seminar in the City. This article today in Professional Pensions reflects what I think and said at those meetings.
John Gray says it’s b…Read more…
While I do not believe everything put out by the CPS (sorry Michael) I do think that my pension fund is being ripped off. As are Councils with toxic LOBO loans.
“The leader of the UK’s largest local authority has claimed asset management fees paid by local government pension schemes are “sucking…Read more…
The Local Government Pension Scheme belongs to some 5.1 million Brits who are the legal owners of its £217 billion of assets. The scheme assets are being merged nationally into one of only eight “pooled” schemes but only one of these pools have made any plans for beneficiaries (owners in law)…Read more…
Last week I went to the annual conference of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).
I missed the first day (Wednesday) but below is an excellent report on the day by guest blogger John Walker who is a UNISON member and sits on the Cambridgesh…Read more…
Yesterday evening I went to the Parliamentary debate at Grand Committee Room in Westminster Hall, which took place following the 105,000 signatures in the petition against Tory plans to direct and control the 5 Million member, £200 billion UK Local Government Pensions Scheme.
I sat…Read more…
MPs will debate the future of the local government pension scheme (LGPS) in Westminster Hall today (Monday) in response to concerns that the government plans to interfere in investment decisions….Read more…
I do sometimes wonder whether Communist Soviet Union “sleeper agents” in the Conservative Party have been “activated” since 2015?
The recent announcement of Government guidance that directs UK Council pension schemes to only invest…Read more…
Petition was launched as part of the campaign against attempt to control what pension funds are invested in
The article UNISON LGPS petition forces Parliamentary debate first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Government proposals to force the 89 local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects have prompted over 100,000 people to sign a petition calling for a debate in Parliament, says…Read more…
UNISON pensions team
July 2016
Protect your pension – sign the petition!
Dear John Nearly 85,000 people like you have already signed the LGPS parliamentary…Read more…
This is my latest opinion article for Professional Pensions magazine.
“John Gray asks why UK pension schemes do not have access to important information on charges.
Earlier this month I went to the CWC annual conference in Amsterdam. This was f…Read more…
The government has failed to listen to more than 70,000 signatories to a UNISON-backed parliamentary petition calling for it to be written into UK law that it is up to council pension funds to decide…Read more…
From Professional Pensions website. (I must send them a new picture to use!)
“More than 10,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition launched by Unison to examine proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) investment regula…Read more…
Sign the UNISON petition urging Parliament to debate plans giving ministers a right to tell pension funds where to invest money
The article More than 10,000 people call on MPs to debate LGPS plans…Read more…
This is an article that I wrote recently for Professional Pensions magazine
“John Gray asks why agreement can’t be made on appropriate discount rates for the LGPS. Currently I sit on three different open defined benefit pension bodies in different employer and employee roles. While I think…Read more…
Local government pension funds must be able to decide where to invest their money in the best interests of present and future pensioners, and should not have their investment decisions dictated by…Read more…
Check out this response to amongst the daftest report ever by a right wing think tank.
It is more than a shame that organisations such as the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) feel they have to temper their reasoned attacks on the financial services…Read more…
It is very ironic that the Chancellor, George Osborne, is described as a Conservative “iideologically committed to cutting the state”.
Yet he has overseen almost unprecedented nationalisation and the expansion of “Big Government” since the Tory…Read more…
This report is late but the affordability of public sector pensions schemes keeps coming up. Picture is of me taking part in my latest verbal duel with Michael Johnson (pink shirt on-the-right) on public sector pensions at the CIPFA fringe during the L…Read more…
This post is just a little late but for accuracy, I wanted to be able to refer to the published minutes which were only published recently.
The meeting was held in the Council Chamber in the Mulberry Place Town Hall E14.
The Hu…Read more…