Ray's Chinn Wag

So what's it all about?

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Some of you will have read my monthly column in Professional Adviser. Over the past few months I have been penning short and long answers to some of the topical issues relating to the world of SIPPs.

There is no doubt that the SIPP market is a hot topic at the moment. We have recently seen SIPPs become regulated products, A Day has made SIPPs pretty much the pension of choice and we have SIPPs that look like SIPPs and SIPPs that don't. Add to this regulatory scrutiny of the transfers market, which is a key driver for SIPPs, the FSA's most recent review of small SIPP operators, question marks over the financial strength of some SIPP firms and questions around transparency of charges etc and I could be writing articles for the next 2/3 years! That's why we've started Chinn Wag. Not my ch...

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