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It’s been a challenging year across the globe, and while the safety and wellbeing of loved ones has been the top priority for most people, looking after our members’ interests has been at the top of our agenda.

As part of the 2020 valuation, we’ll start a formal consultation with Universities UK (UUK) next week. It’s called the Technical Provisions consultation, and it will set out some proposals based on our work on the valuation methodology so far.

Research shows a pensions knowledge gap between genders – read some tips on how to bridge the gap and feel more in control.

Passions are running high in the debate over UK university pensions. This is wholly understandable: pensions are an important influence on the financial security of members and their families and on the financial stability of many academic institutions. We all wish to provide the best possible outcome, but we must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it would be.

We’ve now published our latest Stewardship Report for 2025, which looks at what we’ve done to meet the UK Stewardship Code principles – something that’s widely recognised as the leading stewardship framework globally. Here we touch on what stewardship means for us and look at some examples to bring our activities to life.

As the world turns from shut down to recovery, Mirko Cardinale, Head of Investment Strategy & Advice at USS Investment Management, thinks about what the future might look like.

If you’re getting close to your Lifetime Allowance (LTA) or Annual Allowance (AA) limits and you earn over the salary threshold , you could use a Voluntary Salary Cap (VSC) to help manage the amount of tax you pay on the benefits you build up and on your salary. But if you use VSC, you’ll build fewer USS benefits.