Oxbridge v-cs and unions call for ‘urgent’ pensions redesign
Ending automatic inflationary increases in benefits should keep contributions below 30 per cent of salary, says joint statement
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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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Universities unveil firm pension proposals
Universities have set out their plans to reform the sector’s largest pension scheme.
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Star salaries blamed for pension burnout
Higher pay for top researchers may have caused the end of final salary scheme
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Attractive pensions benefits are possible without huge price hikes
Action is clearly needed to shore up the USS, but the trustee needs to be more flexible, says Alistair Jarvis
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USS deficit review ‘must enjoy confidence of sector or be doomed’
Universities UK to appoint panel to explore methodology and assumptions behind pension scheme’s £6.1 billion deficit
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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UCU members back strikes over pensions but turnout falls short
Barely half of campuses pass 50 per cent voting threshold required for walkouts to go ahead
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USS’ largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than £466 million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme’s latest financial report
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UCU plans strike ballots over pay and pensions
Union sets out timetable for ballots over industrial action in relation to the pay and USS pension disputes
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
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Pension crisis on cards
University non-teaching staff are more likely to become embroiled in the pensions crisis besetting the private sector than their academic colleagues, according to credit ratings agency Standard &...
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The pension millionaire game
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
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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....