We’ve now published our latest Stewardship Report for 2025, which looks at what we’ve done to meet the UK Stewardship Code principles – something that’s widely recognised as the leading stewardship framework globally. Here we touch on what stewardship means for us and look at some examples to bring our activities to life.
We’ve updated USS’s Investment Builder ethical investment options to incorporate a more explicit focus on sustainable investing.
To mark USS’s 50th anniversary, we invited David Watts (a UCU-appointed non-executive director) and Will Spinks (a UCEA-appointed non-executive director) to share their perspectives on the scheme and where it finds itself in its jubilee year.
The way USS has developed its in-house private markets expertise over the past 18 years is held up as a case study in a report published by the People’s Pension.
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.
Stewardship is allocating and overseeing capital to create long term value for beneficiaries which leads to wider economic, environmental and societal benefits.
There are times when there is a lot of interest in our investments – but commenting on individual assets, or on speculation about potential deals, isn’t always wise.
Universal Ownership is the concept that institutional investors (like major pension funds) hold such large, diversified portfolios that they represent a slice of the entire market or economy. Essentially, they own a little bit of everything. Find out what this means for USS.
When taking investment risk to fund the pensions promised to members, we are relying on the scheme’s sponsors – its participating employers – to effectively underwrite that risk.