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The trustee publishes a wide range of documents on its website relating to its investment strategies, principles, beliefs, policies, and activities.

You have different options open to you depending on your age. And even if you’re not able to start taking your benefits yet, there are things you can do to prepare yourself for your future.

Our primary legal duty as Trustee is to protect the benefits promised to, or accrued by, USS members to date. To do that, we have to identify the cost of securing those benefits – that is, the cost of paying a set income for life in retirement regardless of what happens to the economy in the future.

Yes, employers will contribute to your Investment Builder pot if you earn over the Salary Threshold which will be set at £40,000 from 1 April 2022. To give you an idea of how the contributions work. You have a total contribution of 31.4% of salary going into the scheme, 21.6%* from your employer and 9.8% from you.

The Trustee of USS has today launched a consultation with Universities UK (UUK) on key aspects of the pension scheme’s 2020 valuation.

Some UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have been experiencing liquidity issues linked to Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) strategies and recent unprecedented changes in the value of index-linked UK government bonds.

What they are and how they’re used.

Your employer currently pays a monthly contribution equal to 14.5% of your salary, while you pay 6.1% (or your employer may pay this on your behalf via salary sacrifice).

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