When the bank says no: Could SSAS funds be used instead?

SSAS are the forgotten option for pension planning

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For advisers, a SSAS can be an ideal planning tool for their clients, writes Martin Tilley. Here he runs through a planning puzzle with a positive outcome...

Small self-administered schemes (SSAS) are the forgotten option for pension planning, often losing out to the more well-known but less flexible self-invested pension scheme (SIPP). With bank lending criteria for small businesses continuing to be stringent, a SSAS can often offer alternative sources of finance for those firms needing a cash injection to grow to their full potential. To demonstrate the features of a SSAS, let us look at the example of Maddison's Widgets & Gizmos, a manufacturing business, that following advice from its financial adviser, created a SSAS to consolidate th...

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