SIPP provider Dentons reveals investments it won't touch

Laura Miller
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Self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider Dentons has revealed some of the investments it has turned down in the last 12 months.

These include all overseas off plan hotel rooms, all carbon credit investments and all land banking schemes. "These investments do not even get to our internal investment committee assessment stage," said Martin Tilley (pictured), director of technical services at Dentons. Of the 122 "esoteric" assets that did make it through the SIPP provider's internal investment committee in the nine months to 31 December, only 45 were accepted. Those turned down included a wine fund, a property bond, a "cloud lending" opportunity and several unquoted UK registered shares. This week the Finan...

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