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No, but you’ll still need to let us know that you are transferring your defined contribution savings to this type of scheme by completing and returning the Stronger Nudge response form. To do this you’ll need to choose ‘option c’ or contact our Member Service Team on 0151 556 0626 and let us know.

We held our annual Institutions’ Meeting on Thursday 10 December 2020. The ‘virtual’ meeting provided us with an opportunity to 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.

USSIM, USS’s in-house investment manager, is committed to ensuring it develops the investment capabilities required to deliver a portfolio that meets the long-term financial needs of USS’s members.

USS is the pension scheme itself. It’s set up under a trust and has rules that set out what benefits and contributions are payable, and how the scheme is to be administered. Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited – that’s us – is the corporate trustee that runs and manages USS under these rules.

All you have to do is log in to My USS to complete an Expression of Wish form or a Registration of potential dependant form to let us know who you’d like to receive your benefits if you die.

Please keep trying – a number of other companies have been affected by Capita’s data breach and have offered this service so their contact centre is likely to be experiencing high volumes of calls.

This website www.uss.co.uk ("website") is owned and operated by Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited ("USS/we/us"), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 01167127 and whose registered office is Royal Liver Building, Liverpool L3 1PY.

What are private market investments? These are investments which aren’t traded publicly. They include things like property, private debt and infrastructure.

The fund first articulated its engagement approach to responsible investment (RI) in 1999 and has employed an in-house responsible investment team based within USS Investment Management Ltd to engage with companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters for over a decade.