{"id":2225,"date":"2017-08-15T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2017-08-03T07:09:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:09:17","slug":"the-uk-universities-pension-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"The UK Universities Pension Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk in the UK Press about the huge pension deficit in the UK Universities Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-40763577\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-40763577<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is one of the largest principal private pension schemes in the UK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USS is the principal pension scheme provided by universities and other higher education and associated institutions in the UK. It has over 390,000 members across over 350 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Net assets of the scheme \u00a360.5 Billion:-<\/p>\n<p>Securities (equities and bonds) \u00a343.5 Billion<br \/>\nPooled investment vehicles \u00a313.1 Billion<br \/>\nDerivatives (net) \u00a30.2 Billion<br \/>\nProperty \u00a32.1 Billion<br \/>\nCash balances \u00a32.0 Billion<br \/>\nDefined contribution investments \u00a30.5 Billion<br \/>\nOther investment balances \u00a3(0.9) Billion<\/p>\n<p>Net assets of the scheme 60.5 Billion<\/p>\n<p>Top 20 assets held:-<\/p>\n<p>Asset Value \u00a3m<br \/>\nUK Treasury 0.75% IL 22\/03\/2034 \u00a31,955.0 Million 3.2% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 3.25% 22\/01\/2044 1,161.1 Million 1.9% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 4.25% 07\/03\/2036 1,132.3 Million 1.9% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury 0.625% IL 15\/02\/2043 1,009.5 Million 1.7% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury 0.75% IL 15\/02\/2042 908.0 Million 1.5% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 0.625% IL 22\/03\/2040 729.3 Million 1.2% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 1.5% 22\/07\/2047 690.8 Million 1.1% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 4.5% 07\/09\/2034 636.3 Million 1.1% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury 1.375% IL 15\/02\/2044 591.5 Million 1.0% of the fund<br \/>\nRoyal Dutch Shell 505.0 Million 0.8% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 4.25% 07\/09\/2039 463.8 Million 0.8% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury 0.125% IL 22\/03\/2044 377.5 Million 0.6% of the fund<br \/>\nRoche Holding 357.7 Million 0.6% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury 3.75% 15\/08\/2041 327.4 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury BOND 3.125% 15\/02\/2042 307.2 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nFlughafen Zuerich AG 292.1 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nSamsung Electronics 290.5 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nUK Treasury GILT 3.5% 22\/07\/2068 281.3 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nUS Treasury 2.125% IL 15\/02\/2040 276.1 Million 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\nVodafone Group 274.1 0.5% of the fund<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/~\/media\/document-libraries\/uss\/how-uss-is-run\/reports-and-accounts\/2017-report-and-accounts-scheme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.uss.co.uk\/~\/media\/document-libraries\/uss\/how-uss-is-run\/reports-and-accounts\/2017-report-and-accounts-scheme.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk in the UK Press about the huge pension deficit in the UK Universities Pension Scheme. http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-40763577 The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is one of the largest principal private pension schemes in the UK http:\/\/www.uss.co.uk USS is the principal pension scheme provided by universities and other higher education and [&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-2225","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\/2225","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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}