In our second Suffolk Life Research Centre project we gauge investor appetite for gold within SIPPs and ask how this asset can be accessed?
The major benefit of choosing a SIPP over a personal pension is the investment flexibility that it offers. Investors with a taste for more esoteric assets are able to incorporate these into a SIPP and so the market has seen steady inflows into a whole range of different areas including commercial property and land to name but a few. One asset class that has attracted a lot of interest is gold. Always a haven in turbulent economic times, the value of gold has rocketed over recent years as people realise its benefits as a good hedge against inflation as well as its low correlation to other...
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