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

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...