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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Pension makes sense
Readers of your piece on pensions in higher and further education ("Avoiding future shock", THES, September 11) may be wondering why the cost of the Universities Superannuation Scheme is greater to...
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Pensions advice
Christopher Williams (THES, December 20) says academics must question how their pensions are invested. The Association of University Teachers raises this issue at Universities Superannuation Scheme...
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Sector considers options to meet predicted pension shortfall
When it comes to academics' highly regarded pension arrangements, the status quo is not an option, according to Bill Wakeham, chair of the Employers' Pensions Forum, writes Melanie Newman. "An ageing...
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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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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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Calculating the pensions pay-off
It is worth examining what befell many who retired with benefits from the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities. This was a defined-contribution scheme that was the forerunner of the USS....
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Top-up pensions contributions
As an academic approaching retirement in 18 months, I was particularly drawn to Oswald's article. I would strongly support moves to encourage the USS to increase the proportion of salary paid at...
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Market deficit
The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by 探花视频 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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Pensions drop 拢6 billion
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost 拢30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of 拢6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
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Pensions drop 拢6 billion
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost 拢30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of 拢6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
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Pension rejig set to inhibit job mobility
Moving jobs between old and new universities is about to become more difficult as pension schemes diverge further. The problem is set to get worse as a result of the Pensions and Finance Acts coming...
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Letter: Pensions calculator
The Association of University Teachers thinks that changing the Universities Superannuation Scheme could assist in recruiting and keeping lecturers, principally by substituting 1/60th for 1/80th of...