Moret: 1.5 million SIPPs by 2018

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There could be 1.5 million self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) by 2018 despite FSA regulation potentially contracting the number of providers in the market, according to John Moret.

Speaking at the 2013 Henry Stewart conference on SIPPs and Retirement Options, the More 2 SIPPs principal predicted platform SIPPs would account for half of the market by January 2018. He said the SIPP market had grown of a rate of 35% year-on-year since 2006's A-Day, with 200,000 new SIPPs sold annually. He estimated at 1 January 2013 there were 1,029,000 SIPPs which held £122 billion worth of assets. However, delegates heard bespoke SIPPs were beginning to slow in their rate of growth but could still reach a quarter of a million by 2018. In part this decline would be influenced by t...

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