With all the recent chatter about drawdown reform, no one spotted that the Government would advocate unrestricted access to pension pots for all.
Commentators, regulators and even the industry itself have all struggled to split the SIPP market into neatly labelled boxes to highlight the wide range of products under the SIPP moniker.
Calls for a return of the "permitted investment list" for self-invested pensions (SIPPs, SSASs and QROPSs) continue.
We start 2014 knowing that the Pensions Regulator will be looking to improve governance in small trust-based DC schemes following the publication of Code of Practice 13 in November.
Financial Planners have been invited to a series of Sipp and SSAS seminars run by Barnett Waddingham.
Barnett Waddingham has launched a website to support its new packaged auto-enrolment solution "A>E".
So my first month away from AMPS in six years and I was suffering from cold turkey when I saw the release of new guidance by the FCA together with the announcement of a third thematic review.
Sipp provider Barnett Waddingham has added Brewin Dolphin, Charles Stanley and Rowan Dartington to its discretionary fund management (DFM) panel for its Sipp members.
Barnett Waddingham's head of Sipp business development, Andy Leggett, says the FCA's latest guide for Sipps operators - FG13/8 - needs to be taken seriously by the advisers when it comes to due diligence.
Barnett Waddingham's compliance officer Zoe Smith has joined the committee for the Association of Member-directed Pension Schemes (AMPS).
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