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LGPS Online Learning Academy
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If you have any questions about the online learning academy, please contact us here.
The benefits of going online
Video on demand service – available on all devices
Monitor and record all progress for participants including all external learning
Monthly reporting produced for each member and Fund
‘Hot topic’ videos produced to aid Fund discussions and decision making
Jargon buster and relevant LGPS web links for each module area
Our online platform
Funds will receive regular progress reports, allowing them to easily evidence their members’ knowledge and skills. Funds can also record all training that has taken place on the Learning Academy platform. This cost effective training provides LGPS funds with the key information required and allows them to record and track all training progress for Committee, Boards and Officers.
How we can help
Our online training course covers all the key areas that members need to understand in order to successfully manage the running of a fund, including:
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An introduction to LGPS oversight bodies, governance, legislation and guidance
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LGPS administration, including policies and procedures, pension fund auditing
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LGPS valuations, funding strategy and LGPS employers
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Investment strategy, pooling and responsible investment
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Performance monitoring and procurement
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Current issues in the LGPS
1/4
The Avon Pension Fund have recently signed up to the LOLA platform. Hymans made the sign up process for our 40 committee, pension board members and officers very straight forward.
The sessions are enjoyable to work through. It feels much more like a training session than the usual online learning, with a friendly face at Hymans running through the presentation slides. Plus if you miss anything the scripted version and helpful links to follow up reading are really useful. The added bonus is the reporting, so progress can be monitored for all your members with a click of a button.
Carolyn Morgan - Avon Pension Fund
2/4
What a great resource for both committee and board members, giving short, focussed training on key subjects and so fitting in with busy diaries.
I have found LOLA immensely helpful as there is easily accessible information on training undertaken which can be used as feedback or included in reports, which makes governance compliance easy.
Sally Fox - Oxfordshire County Council
3/4
I have been massively impressed by the Hymans Robertson’s LGPS Online Learning Academy – the clarity brought to an incredibly complex scheme is wonderful. The extensive range of training videos has proved hugely useful and informative, enabling me to better do my job. (Keeping them at a maximum of 20 minutes is ideal!)
Furthermore, I totally support the Academy’s goals; making training more accessible, while increasing the knowledge and understanding of all key LGPS stakeholders. I very much hope, in time, the Academy will develop a recognised range of qualifications.
Nick Weaver - Pension Board Chair of Avon Pension Fund (also interim Pension Manager)
4/4
Hymans Robertson has built a great LGPS training platform which has supplemented my own learning with short, easy to follow training videos and knowledge checks. I’m excited to see how this platform develops and aids the improvement of governance in the LGPS.
Councillor Mike Sutherland - Chair of Staffordshire Pension Fund Committee
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