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It seems today that if there is a problem with pensions or if people are looking for someone to blame for people losing money, then SIPPs seem to be at the front of the line.
How popular have the pension freedoms been? In the period running up to April 2015, I was often asked what I thought we would see with the advent of the pension freedoms.
Sipp quotes really are one thing in the pensions world that I don’t understand.

Earlier this week I spoke at a TISA seminar on Mastertrusts. I was a bit of an interloper – Mastertrusts are certainly not my specialist subject – but I was asked to talk about lessons to be learnt from the Sipp market.

As we approached 6 April this year the press started to look at the ten-year anniversary of ‘A-Day’ – the day on which pension simplification regulations came into force. Their conclusions have, unfortunately, been anything but positive.
The third edition of the Retirement Market Data Bulletin has recently been released and although it makes interesting reading, I suppose it does leave many questions unanswered.
One of the Chancellor’s ‘rabbits from his hat’ in this year’s Budget was the Lifetime ISA.
The morning after Budget day found me waking up in my hotel rather down.
While a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief at the lack of pension reform in the Budget I think we do know a little more of where we stand and that is resoundingly in the middle.

Looking at the UK’s first State Pension Age review...

I was writing an article the other day in which I made the point that, with the changing demographics in the UK, one of the Government’s main tools for controlling costs and behaviour is the State Pension Age (SPA).

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