Sipps

Products | 26 Jul 16

Complaints about self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) had the highest success rate of any product looked at by the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (Fos) in the first quarter of this year.

Companies | 15 Jul 16

Curtis Banks Group has acquired the self-invested personal pension (Sipp) business of UK-based European Pensions Management (EPM) for an undisclosed sum.

Property | 13 Jul 16

Self-invested personal pension (Sipp) provider AJ Bell has confirmed that it has reclassified the commercial property funds, suspended in last week’s market turmoil, as non-standard assets under the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) upcoming capital adequacy rules.

Tax & Regulation | 13 Jul 16

Payouts to UK consumers, aggrieved by poor life and pensions advice, have more than doubled due to an increase in high risk Sipp investment claims, new figures from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) show.

Tax & Regulation | 30 Jun 16

A UK advisory firm must compensate a client it advised to give up a guaranteed cash sum and annuity rate to invest in illiquid storage units, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has ruled.