A key consideration

Like so many other parts of the financial services industry the SIPP marketplace is likely to be changed permanently as a result of the aftermath of the extraordinary events of the last few months. For advisers and their clients the regulatory framework and compensation arrangements governing their SIPP portfolios has suddenly become a key consideration - and I would argue not before time. Until 2007 the regulatory framework governing SIPPs was a hotchpotch of various legal structures and differing interpretations of the impact of FSA regulation on these legal structures. This was a conse...