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A few quick steps can frustrate the fraudsters and help you keep your future secure.

Give your finances an early spring clean

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.

Building a truly innovative DC product is a vital part of our goal to give members the best possible investment options and access to forward-thinking investment strategies that’ll positively impact the final value of their DC savings when they come to take them. Read about our recent areas of DC innovation from an investment perspective.

Climate change is a significant financial risk – one that’s increasingly reshaping the way we look at our investments and their long-term returns. As we publish our latest TCFD report, I talk to the progress we’re making towards our ambition for our investments to be net zero by 2050, if not before. I also talk to our enhanced climate scenario analysis which uses our updated climate scenarios to strengthen our assessment of transition risks and we’ve incorporated physical risks in our scenario analysis for the first time.

We held our annual Institutions’ Meeting on 4 December. The meeting provides us with an opportunity to formally update our sponsoring employers on how we’ve performed, the work we are doing to improve the services we provide, and our perspective on how we can deliver on our mission: to work with Higher Education employers to build a secure financial future for our members and their families.

Since the dramatic market falls in March as a result of Covid-19, risk assets such as equities have held up remarkably well despite continued uncertainty over the economic impact of the virus.

If you go over your Annual allowance (AA), Scheme Pays allows you to use what you’ve built in your pension savings to pay the tax charge.

Your pension is taxed when in payment just like a regular salary income using your tax code provided by HMRC.