Businesses could use a Sipp or Ssas to protect premises

FTAdviser latest:SMEs premises could be protected in a Sipp or Ssas

Story by: Dominic Welling, FTAdviser

Businesses suffering from the economic downturn should think about protecting themselves from future financial problems by placing their premises within a self invested personal pension (Sipp) or a small self administered scheme (Ssas).

  • Time published: 09:33
  • Date published: 09.01.2009
  • Published in: Pensions

DWP offers clarity on investing protected rights in Sipps

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has clarified that its policy intention is to ensure that protected rights funds administered within self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) are not eroded disproportionately to the rest of the pension fund.

  • Date published: 06.01.2009

Freedom Sipp closes to new members after FSA visit

The Freedom Sipp has closed to new members after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) identified administrative issues during a recent visit.

  • Date published: 22.12.2008

IFAs should scrutinise Sipp providers

Sipp providers should invest more in their back office systems and administration teams, according to Dentons Pension Management.

  • Date published: 18.12.2008

Sipps could be a way out of uncertainty

Investors could ride out the current volatility in the stock market by putting their shares into a Sipp according to Mary Stewart, marketing director for Hornbuckle Mitchell.

  • Date published: 11.12.2008

FSA looks into poor pension advice

The FSA is to take action to improve firms giving pension switching advice after it found 80 cases of unsuitable pension transfer advice in a review.

  • Date published: 11.12.2008

Alliance Trust suspends new business on full Sipp

Alliance Trust is to close its full Sipp to new business this week, citing an 'upgrade' to the offering as the reason.

  • Date published: 09.12.2008

FSA to address pension transfer advice failings

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is taking action to improve the quality of advice given to customers who switch into a personal pension or self-invested personal pension (Sipp), after it found 80 cases of unsuitable pension transfer advice.

  • Date published: 05.12.2008

Defaqto sees too many Sipps in the market

There is an unsustainable number of self-invested personal pension providers in the market that may not be able to survive the credit crunch, warned Defaqto.

  • Date published: 04.12.2008

Advisers concerned by DWP's lack of clarity

The department for work and pensions' failure to clarify pension proportionality rules more than a month after experts raised concerns is making advisers worried about this type of business, according to Positive Solutions.

  • Date published: 04.12.2008

Features

Money's too tight to mention

The sale of company-owned property to a pension fund could provide much-needed capital at a time when borrowing costs the earth

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 08.01.2009

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Gone fishing

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water, cruising the regulatory ocean is another scary big fish. Yes, another pensions transfer scare is upon us.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 08.01.2009

News Analysis

SIPPs sliding

FSA review finds unsuitable advice given on switches

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 01.01.2009

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