Sipps
Robo killer IFA platform teams with Liberty Sipp
To help IFAs fight back against robo-advisers and make financial advice more affordable, automated investment platform Fundment has teamed up with Liberty Sipp to offer an integrated and low cost self-invested personal pension.
Sipp sales offset Qrops slump at STM
UK financial services firm STM Group doubled its pre tax operating profit during the first six months of 2017, with new business from self-invested personal pension (Sipp) products helping offset the impact of the new government levy on transfers to foreign pension schemes.
Momentum Pensions to target rival Sipp providers for growth
International Qrops provider Momentum Pensions has announced it intends to grow the self invested personal pension (Sipp) part of its business by acquiring rival companies.
Tax & Regulation | 18 Aug 17
Ex-IFA jailed for stealing £1m from client pension funds
A former UK adviser has been jailed for six years and banned from being a company director for eight after he was convicted of stealing £1m ($1.29m, €1.1m) of clients’ money via a self-invested personal pension scheme he invented.
Tax & Regulation | 16 Aug 17
Sipps among most complained about UK financial products
The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 59% more complaints about self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) in the first quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year compared to the same period a year before.