Calculating the pensions pay-off
The USS offers a low-cost, totally risk-free, index-linked income in retirement - plus additional death in service benefits, dependants' pensions and ill-health provision. It can offer these benefits...
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Equity inequities
Considerable attention has been paid to the Universities Superannuation Scheme鈥檚 ability to meet its obligations (鈥淯SS鈥 multibillion-pound deficit could leave staff footing the bill鈥, News, 31...
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The 10 most popular stories of October 2014
Which were the most-read 糖心Vlog stories of last month? Well, since you asked鈥
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Top-up pensions contributions
Andrew Oswald ("Richer than you thought", THES, April 14; "The pension millionaire game", April 28) has shown how niggardly our pension providers can be. What is especially galling to those of us who...
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Investors seek ethical pension
Shareholders in the old universities' main pension scheme are expected to agree new ethical investment policies when they meet for their annual general meeting next week. The Universities...
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Letters
Views on pensions depend on principlesRe the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淩eforms seen as 鈥榬adical attack鈥 on pensions鈥, News, 18 September): in non-academic terms we...
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News in brief - 30 October 2014
USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...
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Assets, liabilities and old age tensions
In 鈥淧ay it forward鈥 (Letters, 7聽November), Dennis Leech attacks my analysis of the financial health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK鈥檚 largest pension scheme.The basis of his attack...
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Pay it forward
鈥淯SS鈥 multibillion-pound deficit could leave staff footing the bill鈥 (News, 31 October) reported allegations of a 鈥渂lack hole鈥 in the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quoted the view that it...
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Market deficit
The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by 糖心Vlog in the past two weeks (鈥淎ssets, liabilities and old age tensions鈥, 14聽November; 鈥淓quity inequities鈥, 21聽...
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Share price crash cut pension fund's value by 24 per cent in eight months
USS suffered in 2008 but board refuses to divulge current figure. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Pension deal aims to avert staff loss
Some older academics in the TPS will now be able to work and claim a pension, says Chloe Stothart A key reform of one of the higher education sector's main pension schemes could help prevent an early...
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Struggle to balance the pension books
"I bet when MPs debated top-up fees last winter they never imagined that so much would be going on staff pension funds," said Richard Allanach, finance director of the University of East London....
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When ethics wins the pension fund debate
Guy Hughes describes the staff campaign to force the Universities Superannuation Scheme to rethink where it invests its money The Universities Superannuation Scheme announced last week that it will...