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Self-invested personal pension (SIPP) property investors are being stopped from leaving their current provider due to expectedly high costs, Suffolk Life claims.

LV= has apologised after an "administrative error" left an adviser's client with an income projection 17.5% lower than promised.

FAMILY SIPP

Patrick Kennedy talks about the role assignment can play as a tax deflecting strategy.

Chris Read discusses the potential challenges around pension illustrations

Advisers have been urged to review cases where they arranged the transfer of non-protected pension rights after a portion of a client's pension went missing for four years.

The Pension Income Choice Association (PICA) is continuing to lobby for trust-based members to be covered by the open market option (OMO) as standard.

More than a quarter of SME owners would use independent financial advisers to discuss business funding, but most remain unaware they could source finance directly through their pension funds.

Enhancements to women's pension provision will decrease the importance of joint life annuities according to pensions minister Steve Webb.

Pension providers are split on whether bosses or insurers have responsibility for holding employee contributions during auto-enrolment opt-out periods.