News & views

Take a look at what you get as a USS member, so you can think about how to align your benefits with your retirement and lifestyle goals.

Private markets already form an important part of our investment portfolio as we believe they can achieve beneficial investment outcomes for our members over the long term. We have therefore signed the new Mansion House Accord – a non-binding, voluntary expression of intent to invest at least 10% in private markets across defined contribution (DC) default funds by 2030, with at least 5% of total assets going to UK private markets.

The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) has appointed Lawrence Churchill CBE as its new independent Chair.

Universities Superannuation Scheme’s Pensions Operations team has achieved the coveted Investors in People Gold accreditation. The award follows Pensions Operations achieving the Customer Service Excellence (CSE) accreditation for the second year in succession, with compliance-plus achieved in three areas.

We’ve updated USS’s Investment Builder ethical investment options to incorporate a more explicit focus on sustainable investing.

To mark USS’s 50th anniversary, we invited David Watts (a UCU-appointed non-executive director) and Will Spinks (a UCEA-appointed non-executive director) to share their perspectives on the scheme and where it finds itself in its jubilee year.

The way USS has developed its in-house private markets expertise over the past 18 years is held up as a case study in a report published by the People’s Pension.