Adrian Boulding: SSAS market ripe for service upgrade

In the early weeks of what may become known as the ‘first lockdown', The Pensions Regulator (TPR)  put out its ‘DC Trust: scheme return data 2019-20'. It provides the latest snapshot for the health of the occupational pensions world. As such, it's always worthy of a read. However, this time around we decided to comb the TPR's annual report to look at an under-reported segment of the trust-based occupational pensions world: small self-administered scheme (SSAS) pensions, now described as relevant small schemes (RSS) and reported within the TPR's ‘micro schemes' round-up. Of all 27,760 ...