Our clients

Local Government Pension Schemes

Columbia Threadneedle Investments have been a trusted partner to Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) investors since 1994. We strive to provide the highest level of service and have a dedicated team to foster and grow relationships across the 8 Pools and 98 Administering Authorities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Our LGPS clients have allocated their assets across Columbia Threadneedle equity, fixed income and alternative investment platforms and leverage our responsible investment engagement services, reo. We aim to work closely with each client to ensure they achieve their objectives through our investment capabilities. For this, transparency and timely communication with each client is at the core of our success.

We hold and support a variety of dedicated local authority events throughout the year. These include conferences, bespoke educational sessions all established to educate and inform clients of key investment issues they face. We recognise the increasing demand to meet changing disclosure requirements and client reporting needs and have a strong track record in supporting clients as their investment priorities evolve.

Our capabilities for LGPS

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Equities
We offer a wide range of global, regional and country specific strategies, investing across the market cap spectrum and with various risk and return objectives.
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Fixed income
We offer fixed income solutions with various risk and return objectives that range from traditional asset classes to more specialist areas such as emerging market debt, securitised debt and social bonds.
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Alternatives
Investors are increasingly looking beyond traditional asset classes to a growing alternatives market that can offer the potential of strong, uncorrelated returns and diversification throughout the economic cycle.
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Responsible investment
In a world where a genuine responsible investment partner is increasingly crucial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments can help investors move forward more confidently.
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Insights

17 September 2026
Fixed Income - Investment Grade

Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit

Hyperscaler debt issuance: A technical opportunity in investment grade credit

AI hyperscalers are reshaping the IG credit market, creating attractive dislocations in fundamentally strong issuers – and an attractive entry point.
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16 September 2026
Global investment solutions

Euro LDI Update: Political risks complicate the trajectory for fiscal reform

Europe’s LDI landscape is being shaped by weaker growth, persistent inflation pressures and rising debt issuance, with political uncertainty in France and Italy adding further pressure to long-term yields.
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15 September 2026
Fixed income

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – No more zeros

With average interest rates of 14.7% over the past four millennia, and 4.7% over the past 400 years, the real anomaly was the zero-rate period of the 2000s.
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11 September 2026
Equity

Head of European Large Cap Equities

Europe: better momentum but structural hurdles remain

Although global growth expectations fell after the Iran conflict started, US growth expectations have crept up.
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10 September 2026
Equity

Senior Portfolio Manager

Global Head of Emerging Market Equities

From Monopoly to Age of Empires - Part II: AI and the new terms of trade: When intelligence becomes abundant, what remains scarce?

In From Monopoly to Age of Empires , we described a world fragmenting into competing technological and economic blocs. Technology, we argued, would not end scarcity.
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8 September 2026
Fixed income

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – China in your hand

China's bond market appears remarkably strong, but the real story lies under the surface.
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25 August 2026
Fixed income

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – Take it to the limit (one more time)

US debt has reached $40 trillion, up by about a third in less than five years. The Treasury has tried to contain long-end pressure, but investors remain sceptical.
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19 August 2026
Global investment solutions

LDI Client Portfolio Manager

Rethinking the DB endgame: run-on rises up the agenda

As UK defined benefit pension schemes move from deficit management to surplus strategy, run-on is now a more credible alternative to buyout.
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18 August 2026
Fixed income

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – A little less conversation

The US July jobs report had plenty to say – little of it good. The economy shed 23,000 jobs versus consensus expectations for an 80,000 gain. Rates markets reacted swiftly, trimming expectations for future rate rises.
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Millions of people around the world rely on Columbia Threadneedle Investments to manage their money. We look after investments for individual investors, financial advisers and wealth managers, as well as insurance firms, pension funds and other institutions.

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We design our capabilities to suit specific markets and we carefully create them with your needs in mind. This is based on our belief that an active approach to investment will deliver long-term value for your portfolios.

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