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Professor David Bailey and Professor John Clancy

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Cymru, United Kingdom and Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Our Latest Blog

3rd February 2026

Times are tough.
So Labour prioritises £16 billion for investment bankers.
Expenses to soar as UK LGPS Combined Assets set to pass $0.7 trillion, at £517 billion.

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Flexbox Video Gallery

29th January 2026

Another bite of the Chery?

Turning a Strategic Investment into a UK Automotive Opportunity

28th January 2026

UK LGPS Actuaries Firms' 'quadopoly' reported to Competition & Markets Authority

We make Enterprise Act 2002 pt.4 request for a formal market study

27th January 2026

Writing off manufacturing is a mistake Britain can’t afford

Why high energy costs are a policy choice, not an economic destiny

25th January 2026

A JLR – Chery tie-up could be a win-win

22nd January 2026

Stairway to scandal:

How £1.1 billion of taxpayers' money was handed over by West Midlands Pension Fund in management expenses

13th January 2026

When you’ve filled in the hole - stop digging:

Pump up the surplus! Does Birmingham have a £3.5B pension fund surplus?

2nd January 2026

West Midlands Pension Fund insider spills the beans:

an £11 billion surplus. It's 200% funded!

31st December 2025

Carry on Birmingham!

Its £14 million deficit reduction repayments...for a deficit which doesn't exist!

24th December 2025

Pension fund Nightmare before Christmas:

£1.9 Billion wake-up call for Birmingham.

2nd December 2025

The designer who dared to reinvent a legend

20th November 2025

£2.7 BILLION:

the record-high payout in taxpayer-funded Management Expenses to pay the UK's local government pensions.

9th November 2025

Local Government Pension Fund employer contributions to fall by £10 billion a year

- for the next three years

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