SIPP

Product providers are split on whether RDR is having a positive effect on their business according to research from Dunstan Thomas.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Kevin Wells, the managing director of Montpelier Pension Administration Services, from performing any significant influence function at any regulated firm, and also censured him.

SIPPclub has launched a one month campaign to gather feedback on whether residential property should be held in a SIPP.

Investment company Green Oil Plantations, which raised £24.4m mainly through self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs), has entered administration.

Self-invested pensions provider Hornbuckle Mitchell has sold a 60.34% controlling stake in the business to two new private investors.

LV= retirement and protection businesses both achieved 15% growth in 2012 according to its latest results.

The BBC has postponed an episode of Panorama covering overseas luxury property company Harlequin following allegations of bribery.

PROPERTY

Self Invested Person Pensions (SIPP) provider, James Hay Partnership, has seen a drop in profits of 6% year on year, according to its parent company IFG, which released full year 2012 results today.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Would you be happy to put residential property into a SIPP if the government changes investment rules?