SIPP

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) wants to increase protection limits for self-invested personal pension (SIPP) investors following the freedom and choice reforms.

The average compensation payout for a SIPP-related claim against failed IFAs rose almost 50% in 2014-15 against the previous 12 months, prompting a £20m interim levy on life and pensions advisers.

Commercial property and pension investing

‘They don’t understand the property side of SIPPs'

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has warned an increasing number of advised clients are reviewing their investments in unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) with a view to making a complaint.

Here's to the next 25 years of pension saving

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on widening the definition of 'standard assets' for providers of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) to cut the cost of incoming capital adequacy requirements.

Wealth manager Towry is to move its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) clients onto the James Hay platform after the closure of its SIPP operation later this year.

Five secrets of a professional indemnity insurance broker

Annuities have become the new focus for complaints according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), a year after the product was publicly abandoned by the Chancellor.