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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Pay it forward
“USS’ multibillion-pound deficit could leave staff footing the bill†(News, 31 October) reported allegations of a “black hole†in the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quoted the view that it...
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Assets, liabilities and old age tensions
In “Pay it forward†(Letters, 7 November), Dennis Leech attacks my analysis of the financial health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest pension scheme.The basis of his attack...
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Market deficit
The letters on the Universities Superannuation Scheme published by Times Higher Education in the past two weeks (“Assets, liabilities and old age tensionsâ€, 14 November; “Equity inequitiesâ€, 21 ...
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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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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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Letters
Local issues will need very close attentionThe two opinion pieces on the implications for higher education of the Scottish referendum raise questions for universities in England as debate about the...
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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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The week in higher education - 11 September 2014
The University of Edinburgh has been warned to “think carefully†about its relationship with a “shadowy†social club, the Edinburgh News reported on 4 September. Edinburgh is already under fire after...
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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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News in brief – 16 April 2015
TES GlobalTHE parent acquires UniJobsTimes Higher Education’s parent company, TES Global, has acquired UniJobs, the online global network for academic and research positions, it was announced this...
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Young academics ‘will be 30 per cent worse off in retirement’
Young academics will be 30 per cent worse off in retirement than their older colleagues, a new study suggests.
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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...