Retirement

The Financial Services Authority's (FSA) plan to raise the amount of capital self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers have to hold will spur further consolidation in the market, the chairman of Mattioli Woods has said.

Fraudsters pretending to be from the Scottish Public Pension Authority (SPPA) have targeted the organisation's members in a bid to extract financial information.

AJ Bell has confirmed it will be one of the first major platforms to go live on Origo's Options re-registration service.

Just Retirement has launched a medically underwritten buy-in service aimed at small and medium-sized defined benefit schemes.

SIPPs

PENSION TRANSFERS

Plans to use self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers' assets under management (AUM) as a factor in determining capital adequacy levels is a mistake, Dentons Pensions has said.

Financial planning firm Henwood Court has written an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne calling on him to abandon auto-enrolment for firms with fewer than 50 employees.

AUTUMN STATEMENT

Pension and wrap provider James Hay Partnership has unveiled its post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) platform pricing model for its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) Investment Centre.