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href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/college-consuls/">College Consuls</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/chairs-professors-readers-researchers/">Appointment of Senior Academics, Senior Research and Senior Teaching staff</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/chairs-professors-readers-researchers/further-particulars-/">Further Particulars </a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/honorary-and-visiting-associations/">Honorary and visiting associations</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/professional-teaching-and-research-staff-appointments/">Professional, teaching and research staff appointments</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/">Temporary worker appointments</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/existing-casual-workers/">Existing casual workers</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/existing-casual-workers/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/prospective-casual-workers/">Prospective casual workers</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/">Hiring Departments</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/">Hiring casual workers</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/app-user-guides/">App user guides</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/graduate-teaching-assistants/">Graduate Teaching Assistants</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/starting-salary-guidance-/">Starting salary guidance </a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/new-job-site-faq/">FAQs for new job site platform</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/">Promotions</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/academic-promotions/">Academic Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/learning-promotions/">Learning Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/research-staff-promotion-and-progression-review/">Research Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/teaching-promotions/">Teaching Promotions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/">Contract types and contract changes</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/types/">Contract type guidance</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/role-guidance/" class="">Contract change form guidance</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/approvers/" class="">Trusted Requesters and Approvers for contract changes</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/contract-changes/">Contract changes for current staff</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/">Job families and grades</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/academic/">Academic</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/academic-and-research/">Research</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/learning-and-teaching/">Learning and Teaching</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/operational/">Operational services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/professional/">Professional services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/technical/">Technical services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/">Working Group to review the Learning and Teaching and Research Terms and Conditions and the use of Fixed Term Contracts</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-i/">Phase I</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-ii/">Phase II</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-iii/">Phase III</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/" class="">Working Group to review Academic Titles and Progression at Imperial</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/terms-of-reference/" class="">Terms of Reference</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/working-group-members/" class="">Working Group Members</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/meeting-summaries/" class="">Meeting Summaries</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/faqs/" class="">FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/secondments-/">Secondments </a></li> </ul> </li><li><span class="currentbranch0"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/">Pay and pensions</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/">Principles of pay</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/">2024 Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability Pay Gap Reports</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-ethnicity-and-disability-quartiles/">Gender, ethnicity and disability quartiles</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-ethnicity-and-disability-mean-and-median-pay-gaps/">Gender, ethnicity and disability mean and median pay gaps</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-pay-gap-in-bonuses/">Gender pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/ethnicity-pay-gap-in-bonuses/">Ethnicity pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/disability-pay-gap-bonuses/">Disability pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/">Comparison of previous gender and ethnicity pay gap data</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/previous-gender-data/">Comparison of 2017-2024 gender data</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/previous-ethnicity-data/">Comparison of 2018-2024 ethnicity data</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/initiatives-and-projects/">Initiatives and projects</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><span class="currentbranch1"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/">Pensions</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-basics/">Pensions basics</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/">SAUL pension scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-care/">SAUL Care</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-start/">SAUL Start</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-data-breach/">SAUL data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-drop-ins-2024/">SAUL Drop-ins 2024</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><span class="currentbranch2"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/">USS pension scheme</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><span class="currentbranch3"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/">USS valuations</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/">What is a valuation?</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/glossary-of-parties-involves/">Glossary of terms including the parties involved</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/timeline/">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/history/">How did we get here?</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently asked questions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/external-resources/">External resources which may help you understand your pension </a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/how-might-this-affect-me/">How might this affect me?</a></li> <li><span class="currentbranch4"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/">What the College is doing</a></span> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/uss-staff-working-group/">USS Staff Working Group</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/imperial/">Our involvement with previous consultations and valuations</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/joint-statement/">Joint statement from Imperial College London and the Imperial College UCU branch</a></li> <li><span class="currentbranch5"><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/joint-letter/">Joint letter from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and Imperial College London</a></span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/uss-prudential-facility/">USS Prudential Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/capita-cyber-incident/">Capita Cyber Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/uss-drop-ins-2024/">USS Drop-ins 2024</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/nhsps/">NHS pension scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/nhsps/nhs-scheme-pays/">NHS 19/20 scheme pays</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/">The Federated Pension Scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/statement-of-investment-principles/">Statement of Investment Principles – May 2024</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/statement-of-investment-principles/implementation-2324/">Implementation 23/24</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/financial-advice/">Financial advice</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/financial-planning/">Financial planning</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/tax-relief-on-pension-contributions/">Tax relief on pension contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/approaching-retirement/">Approaching retirement</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/retirement-options/">Retirement options</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/retirement-options/faqs/">FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-auto-enrolment/">Pensions auto-enrolment</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-auto-enrolment/2019-re-enrolment/">2022 Re-Enrolment</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/">PensionSMART</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/new-starters-information/">New starters information</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/terminology-explained/">Terminology explained</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/pensionsmart-faqs/">PensionSMART FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pension-options-for-overseas-staff/">Pension options for overseas staff</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pension-faqs/">Pension FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/">Pay initiatives</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/">Annual pay award</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/jtus-pay-claim-202425/">JTUs pay claim 2024/25</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/imperials-full-and-final-pay-offer-202425/">Imperial's full and final pay offer 2024/25</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/pay-review/">Pay review</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/pay-review/guidance-for-managers/">Guidance for managers</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/payroll-deadlines/">Payroll deadlines</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/salaries/">Salaries</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/salaries/engaging-agency-workers--guidance-for-managers/">Engaging agency workers- Guidance for managers</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/terms-and-conditions/">Terms and conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/attraction-and-retention-at-imperial/">Attraction and retention at Imperial</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/" class="">Benchmarking</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/professional-technical-operational-and-learning-benchmarks/" class="">Professional, technical, operational and learning benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/research-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">Research job family benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/teaching-fellows-benchmarks/" class="">Teaching Fellows benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/national-academic-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">National Academic job family benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/american-benchmarks/" class="">American benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/international-academic-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">International Academic Job Family Benchmarks</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/">Industrial action</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-students/">Industrial action: guidance for students</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-staff/">Industrial action: guidance for staff</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-undergraduate-marking-and-assessment/">Industrial action: undergraduate marking and assessment</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li><li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/">Leave and absence</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/">Annual leave</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/additional-leave/">Purchasing additional annual leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/calculations/">Calculations for annual leave</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/sickness-absence/">Sickness absence</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/university-closure-days/">University closure days</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/carers-leave/">Carers leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/">Family leave</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/adoption/">Adoption leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/fertility-treatment/">Leave for fertility treatment</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/maternity/">Maternity leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/paternity-maternity-support-leave/">Paternity and maternity support leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/shared-parental/">Shared parental leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/surrogacy/">Surrogacy</a></li> <li><a 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Integrated Risk Management Framework. These include:-  </p> <ul> <li>Maintaining the allocation of assets to growth assets at approximately 60%<sup>[i] </sup>  </li> <li>Increasing the investment in the LDI portfolio (primarily inflation linked bonds) from 35% to 52%  </li> <li>Increasing leverage from the current 17% to 37% by borrowing against specific scheme assets  </li> </ul> <p>We understand that your thoughts are still developing and that you will undertake a formal consultation process on the recommended Statement of Investment Proposals soon. We welcome the proposal to maintain the level of growth assets at 60% but we are very concerned about the significant expansion of the inflation linked bond portfolio – and especially using short term debt to fund the expansion. <br>  <br>Our concerns fall into three categories: </p> <ul> <li>Undue focus on the “gap to self-sufficiency risk metric”, which appears to be driving the investment strategy, in isolation of other risk measures is inappropriate for this scheme </li> <li>The level and type of leverage proposed would import significant risks into the scheme </li> <li>The timing of any increase in inflation-linked bond purchases is poor and out of step with the work to review aspects of the USS Scheme </li> </ul> <h2>Gap to self-sufficiency metric </h2> <p>We believe the proposed strategy is driven largely by a desire to reduce the volatility in the “gap to self-sufficiency” metric which is particularly affected by changes in real (i.e. after inflation) interest rates.  (Buying large amounts of inflation-linked bonds reduces the volatility of the metric as, if real interest rates decline further, the value of index-linked bonds increases at the same time as the liability measure increases.)  However, in an open scheme with a long time horizon and a strong covenant, there should be no need for USS to move to self-sufficiency, and a premature focus on the purchase of low return assets is likely to lead the scheme to have lower asset levels and less resilience in the future. A risk metric that focussed more directly on USS’ ability to pay benefits as they fall due in adverse circumstances would be a better and more useful approach. </p> <h2>Risk through leverage </h2> <p>We consider that the funding of an increase in the LDI portfolio through short-term floating rate debt secured on assets imports significant risks into the portfolio. Inflation-linked bond values may be particularly volatile over the next few years as central bank policy moves away from quantitative easing and towards controlling inflation. As an example, an increase from 2021 real rates to 1% positive real interest rates (still low by historic standards) would more than halve the value of a 25 year inflation linked government bond. Very volatile values can cause big calls for collateral from USS which, if they can’t be met, can cause USS to become a forced seller of assets at the worst time in the market. Furthermore, the cost of the debt used to purchase these assets could increase significantly if short term interest rates are increased to suppress inflation.  This would leave USS paying higher short-term rates on its borrowings just as the value of the assets purchased collapses. </p> <h2>Poor timing </h2> <p>Given that Central Banks are turning from a focus of supporting economies to combatting inflation, there is a very real risk that interest rates rise significantly from their current very low levels. Certainly, it seems much more likely that real interest rates will rise over the next few years than continue to fall. As such, there is a significant expected cost to the proposed strategy.  USS calculates the expected cost as [a 25 bp reduction in expected return]. This translates into a [£5-10bn] loss on the strategy – implying as much as a 50% loss in real terms on the assets purchased.  We believe there may be other – lower cost – ways of addressing the risk of high inflation that have not been considered by USS. </p> <p>For example, the strategy could recognise that other assets over the long run are “real assets”, e.g. equities, property, and that it is not necessary to achieve self-sufficiency to manage inflation. Alternatively, liabilities could be managed e.g. offering the ability for people who don’t really value the DB benefits to transfer to DC. This could well encompass people with only a few years of accrual who are not in the UK and would prefer a transfer to their home jurisdiction or people with large DB pots who see the value in swapping some for a DC pot which should in most circumstances deliver a higher return as suggested by Professors Miles and Sefton at Imperial College Business School.   </p> <p>Furthermore, with the further work streams underway to review aspects of the USS scheme – on Governance, flexible options and conditional indexation – there is a strong case for leaving the investment strategy as it is until the implications of these changes are clear. </p> <h2>Issues to be addressed in the consultation </h2> <p>In the formal consultation we would ask that USS clarify a number of key questions:  </p> <ul> <li>On what basis has USS determined that the current portfolio allocation leaves the scheme with too much risk? </li> <li>Can USS illustrate how the balance of risks and stability changes with alternative investment strategies in a quantified way? </li> <li>Have the assessments of available and affordable risk capacity been reviewed in the light of the now agreed covenant support framework, and why have these changed (or not) from the estimates in the consultation on the Technical Provisions in August 2020?  </li> <li>What other options were considered to address the risks identified? </li> <li>What analysis has been performed on the ability to manage 37% leverage in highly volatile markets?  Please provide specific scenario analysis. </li> <li>Is there a compelling need to enact this approach in the short term given the changing Central Bank policies and the investigation of scheme redesign? </li> </ul> <p>In summary, we do not believe that the case for further purchase of inflation-linked bonds has been made and we believe the increase in leverage may introduce potentially significant risks into the scheme in a period of high market volatility. In the consultation, USS will need to demonstrate with quantified evidence why such proposed changes in the investment strategy are necessary at this time, particularly with the unprecedented covenant strengthening measures and significant reductions in benefits that have already been agreed as part of the 2020 valuation and the work beginning on options for scheme redesign. The evidence provided by USS needs to go to the scheme’s ability to pay pensions as they fall due rather than just its (wholly theoretical) ability to switch instantaneously to a self-sufficiency portfolio.   We would of course be pleased to discuss these issues with you as part of the consultation and explore alternative options which we hope would take our feedback into consideration.  <br>  <br>Yours sincerely <br>  <br>Professor Louise Richardson  <br>Vice-Chancellor University of Oxford </p> <p><br>Professor Stephen Toope  <br>Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge </p> <p><br>Professor Alice Gast <br>President Imperial College London </p> <hr> <p>[i] This represents c44% of total assets due to the leverage <br> <br><em>Joint letter sent to USS on Monday 21 February 2022. 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