Overview
Bespoke RATS are our most personalised products. They give you maximum flexibility when it comes to the underlying assets in which you can invest, the number of people in a scheme, how you pay-in to your pension fund (regular contributions, or ad-hoc lump sums), and how and when you draw your money. Retirement benefits may start at any time between the age of 50 and 75 years, and you can choose whether you want to receive as much as 30% of your fund as a single lump sum from the outset of your retirement.
Bespoke RATS are open to anyone between 18 and 75 years of age who is a Bailiwick of Guernsey resident, including those who already have a Guernsey-based pension scheme and are looking to transfer to a RATS.
Flexibility
Thanks to its flexible investment structure, the Bespoke RATS can invest in a wide range of assets. Standard asset classes include cash deposits, stocks, bonds, investment trusts, and life policies, while non-standard asset classes include investment into private company shares, as well as commercial and residential property.
With the Bespoke RATS, their is the ability to nominate an investment manager of your choice and if you’re an experienced investor, it also lets you manage your own investments through its Member Directed investment approach. You can also request that we provide an investment manager through the use of our sister company Gower Financial Services Limited or one of our many other professional relationships.