The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has received stern criticism for its involvement in the winding up of Freedom Sipp. 

Stadia Trustees has become the latest self invested personal pension (Sipp) provider to launch a new product into the market.

Chartered financial planning firm Informed Choice has launched a low cost, online self-invested personal pension (Sipp).

High Net Worth has discovered that the Freedom Sipp faces imminent deregistration and windup.

The credit crunch is forcing financial advisers to rethink their approach to income drawdown and other risk-based products, according to responses to a survey of the income drawdown sector.

The announcement that Hartford Life is to withdraw from the UK market has received mixed responses from industry specialists.

Hartford Life has suspended its retirement and investment business in the UK, citing turbulent markets as the catalyst.

Getting a decent rate for cash held in self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) or small self-administered schemes (SSASs) is difficult at the best of times, but compounded by the current environment. However, London & Country has launched a new account that offers a minimum of 3%.

Friends Provident, the 177-year-old life company, has revealed it signed up the 750,000th company pension scheme member to its platform in December.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) claims it is not aware of the long-running problems with transferring a Sipp to a different provider, but warns it will issue guidance should it be presented with evidence of sloppy behaviour.