Smaller Sipp firms will be best placed to meet the challenges ahead in the sector over the coming year, the managing director of Liberty Sipp believes.
The Sipp market will ultimately split into two, one of the leading sipp providers has predicted, while another believes platform Sipps will take the majority of business in future.
Changes to pension rules have provided members of older schemes with a "rare window of opportunity" to transfer to a new pension arrangement and retain any higher tax-free lump sum, a Sipps firm believes.
More than six out of ten complaints about Sipps to the Financial Ombudsman Service have been upheld since 2013.
Analysis of the latest mortality data has shown how limited the impact of scrapping the pensions death tax will be, according to a Sipp provider.
Two Sipps firms have strongly backed the move to consign the 'death tax' on pensions to the rubbish bin today, with one director saying it reaffirms the rebirth of the system.
The chief executive of a Sipp provider has said his firm will steer clear of becoming a direct competitor in the platform market despite an alliance with a wrap platform tech company.
Pension schemes should not rest easy from Scots voting no to independence, a Sipps firm warned this morning, as experts signalled they still see significant change on the horizon.
An adviser relationship manager from AJ Bell has left to bolster Xafinity's Sipp and SSAS sales team.
Two firms have struck a deal to create a "sophisticated portal" for administering UK Sipps and SSAS.