Vanguard has reached a milestone of 500,000 clients - including SIPP customers - on its UK Personal Investor (UKPI) platform just under six years after it was launched.

Platform and SIPP provider AJ Bell has appointed former Hargreaves Lansdown director Fiona Clutterbuck as its new chair to replace outgoing chair Baroness Helena Morrissey.

SIPP provider and wealth manager Mattioli Woods has acquired Northern Ireland Financial Planner and SSAS adviser Doherty Pension & Investment Consultancy for £15.048m.

Barnett Waddingham’s SIPP business board has appointed SIPP market expert Mark Smith as an independent non-executive director.

As we enter the new tax year we also enter a new era for pensions as I don’t think anyone, outside of government, saw the abolishment of the Lifetime Allowance (LTA) coming.

The pension gender gap between single pensioners under 75 has reversed for the first time ever, according to analysis of DWP data.