When ethics wins the pension fund debate
Guy Hughes describes the staff campaign to force the Universities Superannuation Scheme to rethink where it invests its money The Universities Superannuation Scheme announced last week that it will...
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UK university pension fund aims for net zero
Universities Superannuation Scheme will develop ＆meaningful short-, medium- and long-term targets＊ towards carbon neutrality
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Essex v-c says universities can afford to pay more into pensions
Anthony Forster criticises failure of negotiators to ＆embrace principled compromise＊
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Final salary pensions to be axed for London support staff
Predicted ?310 million deficit prompts sweeping changes for non-academic personnel
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Pensions drop ?6 billion
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost ?30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of ?6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
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Pensions drop ?6 billion
University pension-scheme members have been told that their fund has lost ?30,000 per member since 2000, a total loss of ?6 billion. Peter Moon, chief investment officer at the Universities'...
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Fresh strike ballots at 24 universities in pay and pensions row
Strikes threaten to spill into the new year, as little progress made in?dispute
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Pension and National Insurance hikes to hit academics hard
Extra contributions are likely to cost many university staff more than ?1,000 a year, analysis shows
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Warwick staff call for action over pension fund
Staff assembly backs motion calling on management to block employers＊ plan for USS
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University staff back revised USS reform plan
Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country＊s largest private final salary pension scheme
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Vice-chancellors fear UK sector is hurtling into financial crisis
Almost no leaders in?THE?survey expect government to support a university in serious trouble, as domestic and international funding woes leave one v-c fearing ministers ＆want to drive us out of...
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UUK criticises ＆excessive prudence＊ behind pension reforms
The USS is being attacked from all sides over the methodology of its valuation and assumptions, claims UCU
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Pension fund pays for ethical guidance
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is to recruit specialist advisers to monitor the companies in which it invests for socially responsible behaviour. As Britain's third largest pension fund, it...
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Jo Grady re-elected as UCU general secretary
Incumbent run close by King＊s College London professor Ewan McGaughey in?poll