SIPP Review

Do you have a SIPP? A Self-Invested Pension Plan (SIPP) is a type of personal pension that gives you more control over where your pension is invested but may charge you higher fees and offer a greater degree of financial risk.

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What is a SIPP?

SIPPs were designed for anyone looking for greater flexibility and control over where their pension savings were invested. Managing your life-savings could be appealing, but with choosing your own funds and investments, can open you up to a significant amount of financial risk.

You’re in complete control, and any decisions you make will affect the performance of your pension pot. The value of investments can go down as well as up, and you could lose money which will impact your retirement.

How do SIPP fees compare?

Generally, SIPPS (Self-Investment Pension Policy) charge higher fees than a traditional fully managed personal pension. A SIPP will have multiple management charges based on the number of investments that are contained within your SIPP, plus there could be included set-up fees and dealing charges for buying/selling shares.

If you’re not a confident and experienced investor, a traditional personal pension could be a better option.

Could I Have a SIPP?

SIPPs are available to anyone in the UK over the age of 18 and under the age of 75. They may be offered as a company pension by your employer.

How Much Could You Be Saving?

As a SIPP generally charges higher fees than a traditional personal pension you could be losing out on valuable pension growth.

The difference between 2% and 0.5% management fees may look small, but, in terms of impact on your pension funds, it could be the difference between a comfortable or a challenging retirement.

Our pension fee calculator can show you the vast differences pension provider fees can make overtime on your pension. Enter your current pension value, your age and the age at you wish to retire, and see the difference fees can make.

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* Performance calculated using fixed 5% growth rate and monthly compound interest. The examples shown are for representative purposes only and should not be used as a pension forecast or advice.

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Frequently asked questions

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Consolidating your pensions from different employers is run in the same format as a regular pension consolidation service. It’s generally not recommended to combine out of your current workplace pension, but in some cases, you can combine and transfer your other funds into your current workplace pension. Please speak with our team to find out all of your options.

Retirement Income Planning is the process of assessing how much income you will need in retirement and then making decisions and actions on how to achieve the targeted income. Your financial advisor will work with you to make a detailed retirement plan to help achieve your goals.

To combine your pensions, a financial advisor will need your authority to speak with your pension providers and then your authority to act on your behalf to transfer your pensions into the recommended product.

By initially giving the financial advisor the power to speak with your providers (Letter of Authority) the financial advisor will request the relevant information they need to make any recommendations on if consolidation is right for you, where to combine and potentially transfer your pensions.

For the full process of combining your pensions, please speak with our team.

A 25% Tax-free lump sum is calculated on the total value of your defined contribution pensions, rather than specific to each policy. The advisers at Hilltop will be able to give you guidance on your options.

Tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future.

Capital at Risk.

Depending on your current pensions, you could lose money when combining your pensions, if they have exit fees included or any guaranteed rates included. By speaking with our advisers, they can check to see if any of your current pensions have any clauses attached and help you to make the right choices about pension consolidation. If we don’t think that pension consolidation is in your best financial interests, we will tell you that too.

Capital at Risk.

There are several ways of consolidating your pensions. But, we believe the best way to consolidate them and to ensure you’re getting the best pension policy for your circumstances is to speak to our team.

We will quickly assess your current pensions and offer advice and recommendations on where to consolidate your funds. The advice we give is always in your best financial interests, and by speaking with us, we can take some of the decision processes from you and guide you to a more suitable pension, rather than a fit for all pension you may see online.

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Combining your pensions could have many benefits. Putting your pensions into one policy can help you to keep track on the value of your funds, quickly see the performance of your fund and also you could benefit from lower management charges than having multiple pensions.

With all your funds in one place, you could furthermore reduce the chance of losing track or forgetting about that smaller pension pot that you accrued with an old employer. Pension consolidation isn’t for everyone, though, so please speak with one of our advisers before moving your pensions.

Capital at Risk

You could drawdown from a personal pension from your 55th birthday. In some circumstances i.e. ill health, your pension provider may allow you to take money from your pension, but this is at their discretion.

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