{"id":170,"date":"2013-07-24T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=170"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T06:28:08","slug":"uk-universities-pension-scheme-uss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"UK Universities Pension Scheme (USS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Universities run a pension scheme called, The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).<br \/>\n[<a title=\"UK University Pension Scheme\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/<\/a>]. After the BT pension fund, this is the 2nd largest pension fund in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It has <strong>\u00a334 Billion<\/strong> in assets, \u00a334,000,000,000. It is very interesting to see the top 100 holdings.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Top 100 Investments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/UssInvestments\/InvestmentsTypes\/Equities\/Pages\/USStop100investments.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/UssInvestments\/InvestmentsTypes\/Equities\/Pages\/USStop100investments.aspx<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>top 5<\/strong> investments are<\/p>\n<p>1 HSBC HOLDINGS <strong>\u00a3466.20m<\/strong><br \/>\n2 ROYAL DUTCH SHELL <strong>\u00a3458.80m<\/strong><br \/>\n3 VODAFONE GROUP <strong>\u00a3343.70m<\/strong><br \/>\n4 GLAXOSMITHKLINE <strong>\u00a3259.40m<\/strong><br \/>\n5 BP <strong>\u00a3235.90m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why ?<\/p>\n<p>These 5 firms are generous dividend payers.<\/p>\n<p>1. HSBC yields 4% = <strong>\u00a318,648,000<\/strong> dividend income for USSC\u00a0<br \/>\n2. ROYAL DUTCH SHELL yields 5.1% yield = <strong>\u00a323,398,800<\/strong> dividend income for USSC<br \/>\n3. VODAFONE GROUP yields 5.3%. yield = <strong>\u00a318,216,100<\/strong> dividend income for USSC<br \/>\n4. GLAXOSMITHKLINE yields 4.3% yield = <strong>\u00a311,154,200<\/strong> dividend income for USSC<br \/>\n5. BP yields 4.7% yield = <strong>\u00a311,087,300<\/strong> dividend income for USSC<\/p>\n<p>Good dividends to pay the pensions to the deserving retired academics.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting fact that if you add up the top 5 investments:<br \/>\n\u2211 (\u00a3466,200,000 + \u00a3458,800,000 + \u00a3343,700,000 + \u00a3259,400,000 + \u00a3235,900,000)<\/p>\n<p>= <strong>\u00a31,764,000,000<\/strong> (<strong>\u00a31.764 Billion<\/strong>)= <strong>5.18%<\/strong> of USSC Assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Universities run a pension scheme called, The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). [http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/]. After the BT pension fund, this is the 2nd largest pension fund in the UK. It has \u00a334 Billion in assets, \u00a334,000,000,000. It is very interesting to see the top 100 holdings. [http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/UssInvestments\/InvestmentsTypes\/Equities\/Pages\/USStop100investments.aspx] The top 5 investments are 1 HSBC HOLDINGS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}