Adviser chases Hartley Pensions for ten months over clients' SSAS transfer

Takes case to The Pensions Ombudsman

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A financial adviser has said he is taking his clients’ case to The Pensions Ombudsman after chasing a transfer from now defunct SIPP provider Hartley Pensions for the past ten months without success.

Chris Allen, managing partner at ACJ Financial Planning, acts for two members of a SSAS whose transfer away from Hartley – in special administration under UHY Hacker Young – has now been stalled for almost a year. Over that period a series of broken promises by Hartley means the members' assets, in excess of £2.7m according to Allen, have been effectively frozen, including property, investments and cash balances. Allen said: "I set a final deadline for a substantive response [on 7 September], with formal notice of the steps I would take if it passed. It has now passed. I am proceeding...

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