For a square, complex-symmetric matrix ##A##, the columns of the right and left matrices ##U## and ##V## of the singular value decomposition should be complex conjugates, since for A=A^T, A\in{\mathbb C}^{N\times N},
A = U\Sigma V^H, A^T=(U\Sigma V^H)^T
so that
U\Sigma V^H=(V^H)^T\Sigma U^T...