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Having attended two excellent events in a week - a workshop by Enhance Compliance Solutions and an Infoline conference on Sipps - I thought I would reflect on the latest thoughts on capital adequacy calculations.

The Sipp market will ultimately split into two, one of the leading sipp providers has predicted, while another believes platform Sipps will take the majority of business in future.

There's five months to go until the new pension freedoms are upon us and, with them, the change in death benefit rules.

Changes to pension rules have provided members of older schemes with a "rare window of opportunity" to transfer to a new pension arrangement and retain any higher tax-free lump sum, a Sipps firm believes.

More people will put commercial property into Sipps and SSASs as a result of the end of the death tax, making property investment much more attractive, a Sipps firm has predicted.

Like many, I was expecting a short announcement during the Autumn Statement followed thereafter by the publication of pages of detail explaining the new pension death tax rules. I certainly wasn't expecting to read about it on my BBC News app on the Sunday night before the Conservative Party conference.

The chief executive of a Sipp provider has said his firm will steer clear of becoming a direct competitor in the platform market despite an alliance with a wrap platform tech company.