USS warned of 'pernicious consequences' of accepting joint expert panel review

James Phillips
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The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is being pressed to ignore advice from a joint expert panel, which would store up problems with "pernicious consequences" for the higher education sector.

Pension experts and economists from the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Cyprus and the Netherlands warned against heeding the recommendations of the panel, which was set up to end a wave of strikes acr...

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