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Michael Otsuka Profile picture
@MikeOtsuka
Sep 27, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The #USS dispute exposed a schism between Dons & Bursars of @Cambridge_Uni. We learn from linked FT piece that Cambridge's recently created post of CFO was created in order to provide "a senior leader" to take ownership of their £1 bn housing project. 1/
ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/09/27/153…
That CFO, Anthony Odgers, formerly a high-flying investment banker at Lehmann Bros & Deutsche Bank, was, we have learned from FOI releases of minutes, a driving force behind the university's push for a 'less risk' response to the Sept valuation... 2/
...in order to make the case for closure of DB to future accrual. In one of these minutes, I get blamed for creating tensions w/in Cambridge Colleges, when I was simply publicising Odgers's views! See embedded tweet: 3/3

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Oct 6, 2018
.@UCL_UCU has responded on Twitter to my linked blog post "Questions for advocates of No Detriment". Below I expose two problems with their response. 1/
medium.com/@mikeotsuka/qu…
In that blog, I ask: "Do you think union members would vote to authorise a strike for a No Detriment elimination of their 1.1% rise for three years rather than accepting the JEP-modelled solution?" 2/
.@UCL_UCU's rejoinder is that they are proposing a negotiation of a No Detriment elimination of any rise in contributions, not only of the modest 1.1% over the next three years, but also beyond that three year period. 3/
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Oct 3, 2018
.@UCL_UCU branch officers reveal that they misunderstood an important aspect of the JEP report when they pushed for their No Detriment motion today. In the embedded tweet, they write that JEP "don't refer accrual rate to JNC": 1/
In my subsequent exchange with @UCL_UCU that begins with the embedded tweet, I demonstrate that it is just as clear that they refer accrual rate to JNC as that they refer cost-sharing to JNC. 2/2
Here is @UCL_UCU's response to the above:
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Oct 3, 2018
A query for @UCL_UCU regarding their tweet below: 1/
If employers call for a cut to DB accrual from 1/75 to 1/80 in order to keep employer contributions down to 19.3% on a 65%/35% employer/member cost-sharing basis, would that also be consistent, in you view, with acceptance of the JEP recommendations in full? 2/2
Here I elaborate on my above query, in an email to @UCL_UCU President Sean @SeanAWallis or anyone else who would like to respond:
Read 5 tweets
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Oct 3, 2018
It has been over a month since @Sam_Marsh101 submitted his Addendum to the JEP and #USS. If he's right, the current valuation contains a significant, hidden layer of prudence ABOVE AND BEYOND the following that JEP lists here: 1/
I say more about the significance of Sam's Addendum in this blog post, where I also explain why #USS and @GuyCoughlan owe us an answer to Sam's findings. 2/
medium.com/@mikeotsuka/us…
I believe that, so far, this is the only response @Sam_Marsh101 has received: 3/
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Sep 29, 2018
🚨💣😱.@Cambridge_Uni's response to a 2016 consultation re strength of the #USS covenant has recently been released via FOI. Cambridge disputes PWC's finding of a strong covenant over 30 as opposed to merely 20 years! The following statement in their response is a bombshell: 1/
"We would be concerned if the increase in visibility of a strong covenant was used to support a less prudent approach to the 2017 valuation than that adopted in 2014, either in terms of the assumptions adopted or the time horizon for de-risking." 2/
We are all aware that tPR's challenge, in their Sept 2017 letter, to the PWC/#USS assessment of the strength of the covenant, wreaked havoc on our DB pension and helped explain the shift to the more conservative November valuation. 3/
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Sep 26, 2018
JEP RECOMMENDATION #3: Smooth the cost of future service contributions over at least the next 6 years. As this chart indicates, this would reduce contributions by 1.5%. 1/
#USS's failure to smooth the cost of future service contributions constitutes a significant hidden layer of prudence. See this blog post: 2/
medium.com/@mikeotsuka/us…
...and this blog post: 3/
medium.com/@mikeotsuka/us…
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