In a Dear CEO letter issued on 22 March to pension providers the FCA appear to imply that the role of a pension provider is now as a gatekeeper for defined benefit transfers. 

As the Chair of AMPS, I dread the day that the Financial Ombudsman Service complaints data is published.

The Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS), the industry body representing SIPP operators and SSAS practitioners, has today revealed Claire Trott of St James’s Place Group has been appointed as its new chairman.

The SIPP providers body AMPS (Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes) has urged members to learn lessons from the implications of the recent Berkeley Burke SIPP court ruling but says the case is “no game changer.”