Embracing the outsider: the benefits of the SSAS

A lone piper has appeared under our office window. His droning appears to offend some of my colleagues, yet to me this is somewhat heartening; the ability to cut through the constant volume in appreciating the grace notes allows me a certain satisfaction, like an amusing in-joke, or a well-kept secret; like the SSAS. It is fair to say that since the publication of ICTA 1970 it has never been more difficult to build up a satisfactory pension pot. Almost six years since simplification, and a compulsion to provide pensions on the horizon in the form of auto-enrolment introduces a stick wher...