Sipp provider Suffolk Life has called on planners and their clients to consider fixed and individual protection for 2014 as early as possible.
In the first of a regular series of blogs exclusively for Sipps Professional, Andrew Roberts, Chairman of the Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS), one of the leading bodies for Sipp Providers, looks at what AMPS is and does and discusses key challenges for the sector.
Increased regulation and competition is spurring consolidation in the Sipp sector but what will the future hold? By Sally Hamilton.
Martin Tilley of Dentons Pensions believes the proposed capital adequacy ruling for Sipp firms could put larger firms at risk as well as small ones.
Liberty Sipp is to launch a new low-cost Sipp and a fully online application system within the next few months.
Sipp provider Xafinity wants legislation developed to allow Sipps and SSASs to invest in the conversion of retail properties for residential usage.
Hargreaves Lansdown is encouraging investors to set up a Junior Sipp for their children.
Liberty Sipp believes a firm's dependency on current account commissions should be factored into the new capital adequacy regime.
The increased regulation of Sipps could see investors moving towards SSAS and QROPS schemes.
Sipps Professional, a new daily news website for financial advisers and providers working in the £100bn Sipps sector, has been launched this week by London-based Portfolio Publishing.