Tag Archives: SIPPS
Personal Pension providers opening doors for the unloved consumer
I’ve been talking a lot about collective pensions to the point that you may think I’m disinterested in”pots” arising from DC pension saving. This is not the case. This blog is about an excellent report produced by this group of … Continue reading
We need a Dyno-Rod to unblock the pension pipes!
Yesterday’s post on Pension Bee’s frustration with master trusts behavior – (blocking transfers under the guise of safeguarding) has solicited a flutter of tweets asking questions about Pension Bee’s motives and practice. I’m happy to answer some- as I … Continue reading
Whatever happened to the managers of the steelworker’s SIPPs?
This morning I had the chance to praise Hargreaves Lansdown for innovative work helping self-invested pension policyholders understand the risk they take in their portfolios. SIPPs can and do offer those who want to self-invest , the opportunity to … Continue reading
A whole new can of “defaults”
The Pension Regulator’s found a new can of worms to open. This time it relates to a very local problem but creates some difficulties for those running and governing DC pensions. As the vast majority of money going into DC … Continue reading
(s)Carey pensions!
Thanks to Angie Brooks for bring to our attention a very disturbing matter relating to Carey Pensions. “Careys” will be known to those working in the early days of auto-enrolment for providing auto-enrolment shells into which various entrepreneurial fund managers … Continue reading
When the dust settles…
For the second time in two years, George Osborne has produced a budget that will radically change the way we thing about retirement saving. If 2014 was the year we re-thought the way we spent our retirement spending, 2015 asks … Continue reading
SIPPs – where does the buck stop?
The recent ruling of the Financial Ombudsman found in favour of investor- “Mr A” and against Berkeley Burke, a SIPP provider who had managed a £25,000 investment made by Mr A in Sustainable AgroEnergy. Mr A had been advised by … Continue reading