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  • 24 January 2022

    USS makes steps towards Net Zero with carbon reducing investment benchmark

    USS Investment Management, the wholly-owned investment arm of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, today announces its intention to introduce a climate “tilt” to a portion of the Global Developed Markets Equity component of the defined benefit and defined contribution funds held by the scheme. This change will affect over £5bn of assets under management.

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  • 3 December 2021

    USS increases Thames Water investment

    The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), has further demonstrated its commitment to UK infrastructure by increasing its stake in Thames Water, the country’s largest water and wastewater company with 15 million customers in London and the South East.

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  • 4 November 2021

    USS announces board changes

    Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited – the trustee of the UK’s largest private pension scheme by way of assets – confirms the appointment of Ellen Kelleher as a new trustee director and the retirement of Rene Poisson from the USS Board.

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  • 2 November 2021

    USS update

    Everyone at USS is motivated by a clear duty to keep members’ valuable pensions funded, so that members – and employers – can save for the future with confidence. We understand the concerns of USS members, faced with proposals connected with the 2020 actuarial valuation for higher contributions or benefits that will build up more slowly in the future.

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  • 10 September 2021

    Pluto Finance to accelerate lending to SME builders of new UK residential homes following strategic investment from Universities Superannuation Scheme

    Pluto Finance, a leading specialist property lender providing finance to small and medium-sized housebuilders, is pleased to announce a substantial strategic investment by the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“USS”), the UK’s largest private pension scheme with over £80bn assets under management.

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  • 6 September 2021

    The 2020 valuation

    The contributions members and employers pay into USS, and the way future retirement benefits are built up, are both set to change.

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  • 1 September 2021

    2020 valuation update (31 August 2021)

    After six months of extended negotiations, USS’s Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) has now determined how the funding challenges facing the scheme should be addressed. This comes almost two years after we first committed to holding a 2020 valuation.

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  • 31 August 2021

    USS announces new board appointment

    Marian Elliott will join the USS Board as an independent non-executive director on 1 September 2021.

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  • 27 July 2021

    USS publishes Report and Accounts covering 'an extraordinary year'

    Universities Superannuation Scheme has published its annual Report and Accounts, covering the financial year to 31 March 2021.

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