Retirement

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RETIREMENT

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Should SSAS be regulated?

A number of smaller employers are planning to avoid auto-enrolment (AE) compliance citing the legislation as "designed solely to allow the government to steal more money".

Origen has sold its small self-administered scheme (SSAS) business to pension provider and consultant Barnett Waddingham.

Suffolk Life has continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of Origen Investment Services' self-invested personal pension (SIPP) book.

FIVE THINGS

In this week's annuity-themed poll we ask: Should the Financial Conduct Authority review the direct to consumer annuity market?

Stephen Robinson, managing director of Bristol-based firm Clarke Robinson & Co, relays the story of a client forced into marriage by his pension providers.