DIY Pensions: A Simple Guide to Pensions, SIPPs & Retirement Planning

It's been a couple of years since I bought this book, the first of about 7 books on pensions and more specifically investing. Since buying and consuming the author's sage advice and knowledge I have consolidated four pensions into a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) and now manage my investments within the SIPP wrapper. Prior to doing this I had very little visibility of exactly what my money was invested in and was paying anything north of 1% commission, which compounds into a significant amount of money, drip-feeding out of my fairly small investments, over the last several decades. This is a good starting book, hand-holding me as I wobble around a bit before progressing into more meaty tomes. Recommended and thanks for reading this far.

Very informative little guide explaining Sipp's. I appreciated this greatly at the time of reading. Nice explanation about things and examples. Also sympathetic to those starting late ...

Well written good basic introduction. Although I would have liked some more practical examples of how to set up a DIY passive fund as a SIP and how the tax credits work.

While it gave an overview it did not come down convincingly for a DIY pension, which is what the book was promoting?

It's an informative little book. The only thing I didn't like is that I felt the author was trying to publicize some SIPP providers.

I found this book to be straight forward, informative and easy to read.

Thank you, Great read. Simple!Just moving my small pension over to a SIP as i lost £60 from my current pension this year. Taking control! Thanks

Very interesting and informative