LGPS pooling reforms could risk sidelining regional investment, warns BBB

The Mansion House reforms’ are creating “uncertainty” and “limiting the appetite” for regional investment within the LGPS, raising concerns that the focus on local investment could be “lost”, Richard Coldwell of the British Business Bank (BBB) has warned.

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Speaking at Room151’s Latif North conference in Manchester, Coldwell, director at British Business Investments a subsidiary of BBB, commented on the government’s recent consultation on

LGPS pooling reforms could risk side-lining regional investment, warns British Business Bank

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