Three things we learned this week

Warning Harlequin SIPP investments breach lending limits A law firm has warned that some property investments made with Harlequin Group via a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) may have breached lending rules. Regulatory Legal Solicitors has reviewed contracts where investors have invested in a Caribbean property with Harlequin - a UK-based overseas property sales agent that is not regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) - via a SIPP. Both the pension adviser and the SIPP itself appear in all cases to have missed the limitation on lending where pension schemes are inv...