@theguardian.com @guardianheather.bsky.social Yday's blog showing how Chancellor highly likely has £10B more fiscal headroom than she, OBR&Treasury realise, from the 97 UK Local Govt. Pension Funds' current snail's pace (re)valuations - if she acts fast! blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog2511...

@newstatesman1913.bsky.social Yday's blog showing how Chancellor highly likely has at least £10B more fiscal headroom than she realises, or OBR&Treasury realise, from the 97 UK Local Govt. Pension Funds' current snail's pace valuations - if she acts fast! blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog2511...

Yesterday's blog showing how the Chancellor highly likely has at least £10B more fiscal headroom than she realises, or OBR&Treasury realise, from the 97 UK Local Govt. Pension Funds' current snail's pace (re)valuations - if she acts fast! blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog2511...

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Councils &employers in the LGPS will see £10B windfall if 97 UK Local Govt Pension Funds get their sums right. Just because snail’s-pace 3yr valuations still ongoing doesn’t mean OBR &Treasury shouldn’t project now probable headroom outcome for Chancellor! blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog251109

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UK LGPS Assets now stand at £476Billion. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog251024 Our updated blog following DHCLG's publication of official statistics for England &Wales. 5th biggest pension fund in the world &9th biggest sov.asset fund in the world. We projected £475B 10 days ago. Pretty close!

EXCLUSIVE: The UK's 97 Local Government Pension Funds' assets combined now worth *£475 Billion*. Each fund's autumn 2025 annual report output collated and combined, first for Assets Under Investment here: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog251014

@guardianheather.bsky.social blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog2510... EXCLUSIVE: UK's 97 Local Government Pension Funds' assets combined now worth *£475 Billion*. Each fund's autumn 2025 annual report output collated &combined, first for Assets Under Investment. Now the 5th biggest global fund.

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EXCLUSIVE: The UK's 97 Local Government Pension Funds' assets combined now worth *£475 Billion*. Each fund's autumn 2025 annual report output collated and combined, first for Assets Under Investment here: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog251014

Back to school scandal: £1Billion (&likely £1.6B) of West Midlands schools' spending absorbed instead into £4.3B surplus of £21B West Midlands Pension Fund. £450m from FE Colleges&Unis, too. £183M from Police&Fire @dgbailey.bsky.social ‘s &my blog explains: blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbblog250910…

@tobyn.bsky.social You presciently predicted an ‘embarrassment of riches’ for the LGPS at 2025 valuation. How about a surplus of £200B across the UK’s 97 pension funds? And assets totally just shy of £0.5 Trillion? @dgbailey.bsky.social john-clancy.com/blogsfromthe...

@stevewebb1.bsky.social Our analysis of the Pensions Over-contribution crisis as it affected Birmingham City Council &Investment Management Expenses you tried to so something about, but which Tories dumped when they got their majority in 2015 centreforbrexitstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/t...

@stevewebb1.bsky.social Excellent analysis from your LCP colleague Tim Gilbert this morning in the FT. LCP should be listened to. t.co/oV5Dj828R6

BREAKING NEWS: FT reports England’s councils to HALVE Employers’ contributions each year over next 3 yrs. That’s £60M credited back to Birmingham each yr. Likely much more as Birmingham overpaying by so much more. Expedited recertification &credit NOW &pause Birmingham Council cuts now til done.

Perhaps we should ask whether Max 🪓 Caller thinks that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is financially illiterate? www.ft.com/content/83ed...

@guardianheather.bsky.social Letter sent yesterday to DeputyPM by @dgbailey.bsky.social &me asking for Birmingham intervention to require immediate, expedited contributions recert&refund of at least £0.5B by 3yr contributions holiday, as they’ve already been paid. open.substack.com/pub/blogsfro...

Letter sent yesterday to Deputy PM by @dgbailey.bsky.social &me asking for intervention in Birmingham to require it to request immediate, expedited contributions recertification &refund of at least £0.5B by 3yr contributions holiday - as they’ve already been paid. open.substack.com/pub/blogsfro...

£1Billion in Management Expenses almost entirely to Investment Managers, &£270million of that paid for by Birmingham City Council whilst it went bust. Can it recover £0.5 Billion? @theguardian.com centreforbrexitstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/t...

centreforbrexitstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/t... My blog with @dgbailey.bsky.social today on the real reasons Birmingham City Council went bust, and how it can unbust itself with the stroke of the Deputy PM’s pen?