Editor's View: A new chapter begins for Professional Adviser

The editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 2 September

Hope William-Smith
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Yesterday marked the official start of my tenure as editor of PA after three years away from the advice world writing about institutional pensions.

Though it will no doubt take me time to get my feet fully under the table again, it's clear already that many of the discussions that dominated the landscape in 2019 remain similar, if not the same. Central within this is the continuing theme of the mismanagement of self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) by wayward operators. This week saw Rowanmoor Personal Pensions Limited go into administration after complaints about historic high-risk non-standard assets that were being placed in customers' SIPPs. This has left 4,800 savers in an uncertain position during one of the most economicall...

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