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Tag Archives: USS
Weathering the Storm
Iain Clacher & Con Keating As part of our Funding Code research, we searched for academic or practitioner papers covering long-term expected returns forecasts. We were particularly interested in the ex post accuracy of these forecasts. We found none which … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage, pension genome, pensions, risk
Tagged #USS, CETV, DB transfers, ppf, Ralph nader, USS
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Sam Marsh’s response to TPR’s DB Funding Code
Sam Marsh is a lecturer and branch president of the Sheffield UCU. He has responded on his own behalf to TPR’s consultation. Continue reading
Posted in age wage, pensions, USS
Tagged Consultation, DB Funding Code, pensions, Sam Marsh, TPR, UCU, USS
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The USS needs a 2021 Valuation- Michael Bromwich
In finalising the 2018 valuation the USS committed to a further out of cycle valuation as at the 31 st March 2020. This allows consideration of the recommendations of second report of the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) and the incorporation … Continue reading
How will USS value itself today?
News has come in that the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) is going to press ahead with a valuation of its assets and liabilities as at the 31st March 2020. It reasons for it in a public statement. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Galvin, Dennis Leech, financial markets, Higher education, Kevin Wesbroom, pensions, USS
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USS : FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES – OR OPPORTUNITIES?
Jon Spain is one of Britain’s foremost actuarial thinkers. You don’t have to be an actuary to enjoy this piece – indeed it might help for non-actuaries to peer behind the actuarial covers – as Jon allows you … Continue reading
The state of USS is the state of us.
In normal times, USS reporting itself to the Pensions Regulator for being under-funded would be considered a major news story. But what Jo Cumbo reported as happening yesterday is not headline news, it is a sideshow to what is being … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Bill Galvin, jo cumbo, pensions, state of us, USS
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UCU and UUK “please pack it in!”
My view is simple, the Joint Expert Panel was set up to prevent further disruption, please don’t disrupt further. Continue reading
Let’s get USS done!
What does the Trustee do? Ask a 7 year old what a Trustee does and a 7 year old would say “do trust”. This is the verdict of chapter 7 of the second Joint Expert Panel on the Trustee of … Continue reading
“Your pay-rise is a pension rise”
I often “wake up to money” but not to this! In a discussion about when we last got a pay-rise, one listener mailed in that her boss told her “your pay-rise is a pension rise” It’s the first time … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, pay rise, pension, pension rise, third world, Third world pension, USS
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The trouble with conformity – USS latest
The dissenting voice has long been upheld in British Universities. Minority opinions are valued as an antidote to received wisdom which all too often degenerates into herd-like conformity. So I worry when I read the justification that the USS … Continue reading
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Tagged Conformity, DB pensions, Jane Hutton, pensions, Sam Marsh, USS
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