Mike Ferguson
Mike advises a wide range of UK businesses on SSAS and is part of the firm’s technical resource group for small schemes.
Advising SSASs of all shapes and sizes Mike works on all aspects from the simple straightforward cases to those requiring guidance in more complex technical issues.
His vast experience, clear advice and friendly approach have helped him to become a trusted consultant and build good relationships with clients, some of which go back over the last 20 years that Mike has been with the firm.
Significant experience:
- advice to wide range of SSAS clients with relatively small funds up to those with funds amounting to several million pounds
- advice to complex SSAS clients
- advice to SMEs on the establishment and operation of SSAS for owner/managers
- bespoke consultancy to SSAS cases with difficulties
Comment & Insight
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Briefing Finance Act 2014 receives Royal Assent
The Finance Act 2014 received Royal Assent on 17 July 2014, meaning that various issues applying to SIPP and SSAS members have now been finalised.
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Briefing Authorised employer loans from SSAS - a unique feature
A unique feature of Small Self Administered Scheme (SSAS) is that they are able to make loans to their sponsoring companies. These are called authorised employer loans.
Career
Mike joined Barnett Waddingham from Bradford and Bingley Building Society in 1992.
Memberships
- Pensions Management Institute
Interests
Mike has three grown up children and has been a school governor at the primary school his children attended for the last fourteen years. Mike is a keen football fan and of Derby County ('the Rams') in particular, having watched them from the terraces during his childhood.