Bridge over troubled water

The investment landscape section of Defaqto's 2009 Sipp market review - Bridge Over Troubled Water - sought to appraise the asset types being used by IFAs operating in the Sipp market when constructing Sipp investment portfolios

Results of Defaqto’s annual Sipp survey, which were included within the Bridge Over Troubled Water review, confirmed the majority of the 177 IFA respondents, 73%, make their own decisions with regards to the construction of the Sipp investment portfolio. This figure is in keeping with the nature of Sipp products and the type of specialist IFA involved in recommending Sipp products. In order for Defaqto to appraise the usage levels of the various permitted Sipp asset types, IFA respondents were asked to confirm which types they used most regularly when compiling Sipp portfolios for their ...