Insight into self-invested pensions

Self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) look like becoming the vogue personal investment vehicle of the twenty-first century and could displace the traditional personal pension policy for many. The introduction of Sipps in 1989 opened up opportunities in most areas of the personal savings market. Until then, individual pensions were almost exclusively the preserve of insurance companies and personal/executive pension plans. Self-invested pensions, and Sipps in particular, are causing clients to look more closely at how their pension funds and other free assets held outside any pensio...