Publications

LA Forum publications provide a comprehensive overview of the end to end research and investment process across a range of asset classes.  Our aim is to help our members understand complex problems and plan efficiently.

Written and published for Local Authority officers, these thought provoking documents highlight investment issues, available options and trends in key areas of the UK's public sector pension scheme space.

Targeting investment officers, policy makers, industry specialists, and the pensions board in order to promote debate and understanding.  It is not intended for use directly in either market forecasting or for investment decision purposes, where specialist advice should be sought.

Please note: some of the media sources, publications or articles featured on LA Forum may require registration to gain access.

Interested parties should contact Mark Turnbull (Director: LA Forum) T: 01260 226610 E: mark@laforum.co.uk

Cutting Red Tape - A Review of House Building

This report summarises the findings of the Cutting Red Tape review of the house building sector which took place during 2016.

 

Date added: 23-02-2017

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Department for Communities & Local Government - Fixing our Broken Housing Market

This white paper sets out government’s plans to boost the supply of new homes in England.

It includes measures to ensure we:

• plan for the right homes in the right places
• build homes faster
• diversify the housing market
• help people now

Date added: 10-02-2017

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Stronger together: shared management in local government

Around 45 councils across England share a chief executive and senior management team in about 20 different partnerships.

Date added: 01-02-2017

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The LGA Housing Commission Final Report - Building our Homes, Communities and Futures

Local government shares the collective ambition to build more homes, and its focus is beyond bricks and mortar. The right homes in the right areas can have significant wider benefits for people and communities, and prevent future public service challenges and costs.

Date added: 10-01-2017

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Sectors

• Active Management
• Alternatives
• Asset Allocation
• Briefing - Investment
• China
• Client Management
• Commodities
• Data & Analytics
• Developed Market Sovereign Bonds
• Diversified Growth Funds
• Emerging & Frontier Equities
• Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
• ETF's
• European Equities
• Factor Investing
• Farmland
• Fiduciary Management
• Global Equities
• Governance
• Green Bonds
• Hedge Funds
• Infrastructure
• Insurance
• Japan
• Market Commentary
• Private Equity
• Real Assets
• Real Estate
• Residential
• Risk Management
• Smart Beta
• Sustainable Development
• UK Equities
• Venture Capital

Company

• All
• Alliance Trust Investments
• Allianz
• AODP
• AQR Capital Management
• Bank of England
• bFinance
• Bouwinvest
• CBRE
• Clerus
• Climate Bonds Initiative
• Cornerstone
• Cushman & Wakefield
• Deloitte
• DGC Asset Management
• E3G
• EBB
• EFG Asset Management
• Environment Agency Pension Fund
• ETF Express
• FTSE Russell
• G20/OECD
• Global Fund Media
• HedgeWeek
• HSBC
• Impax
• Infosys
• Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
• Institutional Real Estate, inc
• Intelligent Partnership
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Invest Europe
• Jupiter
• KPMG
• LA Forum
• Lane Clark & Peacock
• LAPFF
• Legg Mason
• LGA
• Local Government Association
• London Councils
• LSH
• M&G Real Estate
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Morgan Stanley
• NESTA
• New Capital
• Northern Trust
• Office for National Statistics
• Pension Protection Fund
• Pioneer Investments
• Places for People
• PRI
• Principle Financial Group
• Quoted Data
• Research Affiliates
• Robeco
• RSA
• S&P
• Schroders
• Scottish Government
• Solace
• Spence Johnson
• The Global Scan
• TIAA Henderson
• Towers Watson
• UBS Asset Management
• United Nations
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• WBCSD
• Willis Towers Watson
• World Bank Group
• World Economic Forum