SIPP

IFA TailorMade Independent (TMI), which advised on investments with troubled overseas property agent Harlequin Property, has launched an internal review of its processes following a visit by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Changes are coming to SIPP illustrations in the name of greater disclosure and aiding consumer decision-making. Andy Leggett examines some of the issues

Some agents selling Harlequin properties before March 2009 misled investors into thinking that their investment money would be held securely in ring-fenced accounts.

TailorMade Independent, a distributor of Harlequin Property investments, has had its permissions changed to restrict its ability to carry on new pensions business.

Nottingham-based advisory firm Investment Sense has launched a web service that enables advisers and consumers to rate their Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) purchases.

TailorMade, a UK distributor of investments in Harlequin Property, has said it stopped taking new money into the overseas property scheme in January following a Financial Services Authority (FSA) alert about Harlequin.

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A law firm has warned that some property investments made with Harlequin Group via a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) may have breached lending rules.

Aviva has scrapped plans to add a group ISA and group SIPP to its employee benefits platform, Work:Life.