Brunel Pension Partnership (Investment Pooling Project)
24 June 2016
In the July 2015 budget the government announced that they wanted the 89 Local Government Pension Scheme funds to pool their investments into larger pools in order to achieve savings in investment management costs. Following this in the Autumn Statement, the government published the criteria for the pooling of LGPS investment assets.
In response to the government agenda, the Avon Pension Fund has explored options for the pooling of its investment assets with the other eight LGPS funds in the south west*, a group that has already worked collaboratively over a considerable period of time. Two other funds, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire have joined the group which is now called “Project Brunel”, with collective assets of c. £23 billion.
Each year the Avon Pension Fund Committee reports on its activities to Bath & North East Somerset Council. The report for the year ending 31 March 2015 was presented at the Council meeting on 16 July 2015. The report covers the scope of the work considered by the Committee during the year and the decisions taken as well as the training undertaken by the Committee members. It also highlights the future work programme of the current committee.