A 40 minute watch.

‘Mr SIPP’ shares highlights (and lowlights) from the second half of his 50-year career

In the second half of this interview with SIPP and pensions expert John Moret, Sam Shaw hears his views on the transformative nature of platforms, recalls some of the “extraordinary” announcements to do with pensions simplifications and he remembers the devastating government U-turn on allowing residential property into SIPPs.

“It’s probably time for another ‘pensions simplification’ but we would need it to be far more radical than we’ve had before…”

John says we are yet to see the true impact of pension freedoms, calls out the design of the FSCS, says he learnt more in four years at PPML than he may have learnt in the other 46 years of his career.

“I’ve always been a believer in choice but also in making sure that you’ve built in the right safeguards and unfortunately that is where we’ve failed as an industry..”