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As we enter the new year, it’s a great time to review your finances and make sure your retirement income supports your plans for the year ahead.

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.

UCEA and UCU have been exploring Conditional Indexation benefit design options. The first of two planned reports provides an interim update on progress and highlights areas for further exploration.

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.

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.