Retirement

Fraudsters pretending to be from the Scottish Public Pension Authority (SPPA) have targeted the organisation's members in a bid to extract financial information.

AJ Bell has confirmed it will be one of the first major platforms to go live on Origo's Options re-registration service.

Just Retirement has launched a medically underwritten buy-in service aimed at small and medium-sized defined benefit schemes.

SIPPs

PENSION TRANSFERS

Plans to use self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers' assets under management (AUM) as a factor in determining capital adequacy levels is a mistake, Dentons Pensions has said.

Financial planning firm Henwood Court has written an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne calling on him to abandon auto-enrolment for firms with fewer than 50 employees.

AUTUMN STATEMENT

Pension and wrap provider James Hay Partnership has unveiled its post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) platform pricing model for its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) Investment Centre.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a partner at a self invested personal pension (SIPP) operator at the center of fraud proceedings for failing to keep informed about management decisions at the firm.