Sipp provider sued by 77 investors
A judge has granted a request from 77 self-invested person pension scheme (Sipps) investors to join forces under a group litigation order and sue Berkeley Burke Sipp Administration for mis-selling.
A judge has granted a request from 77 self-invested person pension scheme (Sipps) investors to join forces under a group litigation order and sue Berkeley Burke Sipp Administration for mis-selling.
More than half of the complaints around self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) passed to a financial ombudsman were upheld during the three months to 31 December 2017, making it one of most upheld areas of complaint.
The Pensions Ombudsman has not upheld a complaint from a client and ex financial adviser accusing AJ Bell of poor service, negligence, maladministration and misconduct, which saw the investment firm take the “unprecedented decision” to end its relationship with him.
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has upheld half of the complaints it received about self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) so far in 2017/18.
Guernsey-based platform Momentum Wealth International has partnered with two well-established expat-focused pension providers, Edinburgh-based Forthplus and the unrelated, multi-jurisdictional Momentum Pensions to give a worldwide push for customised versions of their self-invested personal pension schemes.
Edinburgh-headquartered private bank Hampden & Co has started lending to self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) as part of its offering to advisers.
Advisers and client will be able to choose passive, ethical and Sharia investments and include Vanguard funds in their Sipp after Momentum Pensions expanded its offering.
To help IFAs fight back against robo-advisers and make financial advice more affordable, automated investment platform Fundment has teamed up with Liberty Sipp to offer an integrated and low cost self-invested personal pension.
UK financial services firm STM Group doubled its pre tax operating profit during the first six months of 2017, with new business from self-invested personal pension (Sipp) products helping offset the impact of the new government levy on transfers to foreign pension schemes.
International Qrops provider Momentum Pensions has announced it intends to grow the self invested personal pension (Sipp) part of its business by acquiring rival companies.
A former UK adviser has been jailed for six years and banned from being a company director for eight after he was convicted of stealing £1m ($1.29m, €1.1m) of clients’ money via a self-invested personal pension scheme he invented.
The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 59% more complaints about self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) in the first quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year compared to the same period a year before.