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The Glorious 31st
11 Aug 2022Technical

The Glorious 31st

If you want to understand your local authority’s financial position which bits of the accounts should you focus on?

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Derive Some Benefits
11 Aug 2022Investing

Derive Some Benefits

Derivatives don’t appear in many local authority portfolios. Used properly, they are excellent risk management tools, but they can be unfamiliar and a little more complicated. Nonetheless, some local authorities are taking advantage of derivatives indirectly through investments in certain pooled funds.

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A Guarantee of Success?
09 Aug 2022Technical

A Guarantee of Success?

Some authorities have looked at ways of undertaking planned projects whilst complying with the new rules, and one way of doing this is by obtaining third party loans for their subsidiaries, rather than lending the companies the money themselves.

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Taxing Borrowing?
28 Jul 2022Local Authorities

Taxing Borrowing?

They say everything comes back into fashion and this seems to be the case in terms of the control of local authority capital spend.

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A Roundup of Public Finance Live 2022
15 Jul 2022Local Authorities

A Roundup of Public Finance Live 2022

After a long two years of few ‘in real life’ meetings, the Arlingclose team were keen to get in front of clients and non-clients alike, at Public Finance Live 2022.

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