Comment and Blogs
In November last year, the FCA asked Sipp operators to complete a (long) questionnaire to help them with their third thematic review. Among the 40 or so data items requested was the amount of Assets Under Administration (AUA).
Like many, I was expecting a short announcement during the Autumn Statement followed thereafter by the publication of pages of detail explaining the new pension death tax rules. I certainly wasn't expecting to read about it on my BBC News app on the Sunday night before the Conservative Party conference.
The best part of two years is a long time to wait for the result of a consultation, and you would expect to see some progress after that sort of delay.
It has been a tough couple of weeks for the SIPP industry.
In this brave new world of pension freedoms, people will have far more choice regarding what they want to do with their pension funds.