LGC Investment Series Podcast

This episode was recorded at the LGC Investment Seminar 2026 in Carden Park on 19-20 March. Joining Martin George, acting editor of Local Government Chronicle, are Rachel Brothwood, executive director of pensions at the West Midlands Pension Fund, and Matthew Graham, chief business development officer at the LPPI pool. They discuss some of the biggest current issues in the Local Government Pension...

This episode was recorded at the LGC Investment Seminar Scotland in Edinburgh on 30-31 October 2025. Joining Martin George, deputy editor of Local Government Chronicle, is Clair Alcock, board secretary to the LGPS Advisory Board. Together they explore the biggest issues shaping the LGPS, including the new shape of the scheme following pooling 2.0, upcoming governance changes, and how relationships...

The latest episode of the LGC Investment Podcast explores sustainable finance in the Local Government Pension Scheme amid increasing complexity and geopolitical challenges. This episode is sponsored by Jupiter Asset Management. Jupiter is leading specialist active asset manager. This episode was recorded at the LGC Investment & Pensions Summit in Birmingham on 11-12 September. Joining Martin G...

This episode is sponsored by Downing. Downing is a responsible investment manager with nearly a billion pounds of assets under management in renewable energy and infrastructure. This episode was recorded live at the LGC Investment Seminar which was held between 27-28 March 2025 in Carden Park, Cheshire. Joining Martin George, deputy editor of Local Government Chronicle, are: Tom Williams, head of...

This episode is sponsored by Brightwood. Brightwood Capital is a $6 billion private credit firm that specialises in providing customised senior debt capital to sponsored and non-sponsored U.S. businesses in five core industries within the middle market.  This episode was recorded live at the LGC Investment and Pensions Summit which was held between 11-13 September 2024 in Birmingham. Joining Marti...

Episode ten of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now available, and was recorded at the recent LGC Pension Insight Symposium event held in Winchester between 11-12 July 2024. Joining deputy editor of Local Government Chronicle Martin George, is Phil Triggs, Tri-Borough Director of Treasury and Pensions at Westminster City Council, and Jo Donnelly, Secretary to the Scheme Advisory Board. The gr...

Episode nine of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now available, and was recorded at the recent LGC Investment Seminar event held at Carden Park in Cheshire between 14-15 March 2024. In this episode, Deputy Editor of LGC, Martin George, chats to a pair from Clwyd Pension Fund. Deputy Head of Fund, Debbie Fielder, who had received the Lifetime Achievement Award from LGC at dinner the night prio...

Episode eight of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now available, and was recorded at the recent LGC Investment Seminar Scotland event held in Edinburgh between 19-20 October 2023. In this episode, Deputy Editor of LGC, Martin George, chats to Bruce Miller, Chief Investment Officer at Lothian Pension Fund.

Episode seven of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now live, and was recorded at the recent LGC Investment & Pensions Summit held in Leeds between 07-08 September 2023. In this episode, Deputy Editor of LGC, Martin George, chats to Roger Phillips from the Scheme Advisory Board, fresh off the back of his session at the event in which he updated the auidence on the Board's response to the up...

Episode six of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now live, and was recorded at the recent LGC Investment Seminar held at Carden Park in Cheshire between 30-31 March 2023. In this episode, Deputy Editor of LGC, Martin George, chats to Dafydd Edwards - County Fund Director at Gwynedd Pension Fund, ahead of his impending retirement. Dafydd was also awarded the LGC Investment Lifetime Achievement...

Episode five of this LGC Investment Series Podcast is now live, and was recorded at the recent LGC Investment & Pensions Summit held in Leeds between 08-09 September 2022. In this episode, Deputy Editor of LGC, Martin George, chats to Mike O'Donnell - the Chief Executive Officer at London CIV. The next LGC Investment event will be the LGC Investment Seminar Scotland in Edinburgh, between 20-21 Oct...

The fourth episode of the LGC Investment Series Podcast is live!  This one was recorded at the Investment Seminar which was held at Carden Park in Cheshire, between 25-25 March 2022, and features our interview with Jeff Houston as his retirement from the Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board approaches. Jeff is quizzed by LGC's deputy editor Martin George on all things LGPS including his...

The third episode of our Investment Series Podcast was recorded at the LGC Investment Seminar 2020 which was held on 27 & 28 February at Carden Park Country Hotel in Cheshire.  The episode is hosted once again by LGC Features Editor Martin George. Martin is joined by CIPFA's Associate Director, Andrew Burns, shortly before he delivered the closing session to the conference audience.  Together they...

This episode was recorded at the LGC Investment and Pensions Summit which was held at Celtic Manor in South Wales on 5 & 6 September 2019. LGC’s new Features Editor, Martin George, is joined by the Chief Executive of Brunel Pension Partnership, Dawn Turner, and Secretary to the Scheme Advisory Board, Jeff Houston. The trio discuss the key highlights from the two day Summit, including hot topics li...

In the first episode of the LGC Investment Series Podcast, editor of LGC Nick Golding is joined by Denise Le Gal from BPP and Michael Marshall from LGPS. The three discuss ESG - what does it mean and how does it directly impact our world, and how funds can hold their pool to account. This episode was recorded at the LGC Pension Insight Symposium, sponsored by PIMCO, held between 11-12 July 2019. P...