The Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 2016

Investment strategy statement

7.—(1) An authority must, after taking proper advice, formulate an investment strategy which must be in accordance with guidance issued from time to time by the Secretary of State.

(2) The authority’s investment strategy must include—

(a) a requirement to invest fund money in a wide variety of investments;

(b) the authority’s assessment of the suitability of particular investments and types of investments;

(c) the authority’s approach to risk, including the ways in which risks are to be assessed and managed;

(d) the authority’s approach to pooling investments, including the use of collective investment vehicles and shared services;

(e) the authority’s policy on how social, environmental and corporate governance considerations are taken into account in the selection, non-selection, retention and realisation of investments; and

(f) the authority’s policy on the exercise of the rights (including voting rights) attaching to investments.

(3) The authority’s investment strategy must set out the maximum percentage of the total value of all investments of fund money that it will invest in particular investments or classes of investment.

(4) The authority’s investment strategy may not permit more than 5% of the total value of all investments of fund money to be invested in entities which are connected with that authority within the meaning of section 212 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007(1).

(5) The authority must consult such persons as it considers appropriate as to the proposed contents of its investment strategy.

(6) The authority must publish a statement of its investment strategy formulated under paragraph (1) and the first such statement must be published no later than 1st April 2017.

(7) The authority must review and if necessary revise its investment strategy from time to time, and at least every 3 years, and publish a statement of any revisions.

(8) The authority must invest, in accordance with its investment strategy, any fund money that is not needed immediately to make payments from the fund.

(1)

2007 c. 28; section 212 was amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13) and there are prospective amendments made by the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2).