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Transfer your pension to Fidelity’s SIPP

Get £300 to £3,000 cashback when you apply to transfer and/or add a lump sum into our SIPP or ISA by 5 April 2026. Minimum value, exclusions, T&Cs apply.

Important information - investment values can go down as well as up, so you may get back less than you invest. SIPP eligibility and tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and tax rules may change. You cannot normally access money in a pension until age 55 (57 from 2028). Before transferring a pension, compare all the benefits, charges and features and always seek financial advice if you’re unsure.

Why transfer to Fidelity's SIPP?

Over the years you might have built up several personal and workplace pension pots with different providers. Bringing your pensions together into our  Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) can help you take control and manage your money more effectively.

We’ve been a Which? Recommended Provider for our SIPP five years running. With our wide investment range, expert insights and plenty of guidance and support, you’ll have everything you need to make more of your retirement savings.

Which? Recommended Provider

We’re delighted to be a recommended provider for our SIPP five years running

Investment choice

More ways to meet your goals with access to one of the UK’s most extensive fund ranges plus shares, investment trusts and exchange-traded funds

Flexible access

Easier access to your pension when you’re ready, together with flexible income options

Get £300 to £3,000 cashback when you apply to transfer or add a lump sum into our SIPP or ISA, or both, by 5 April 2026. The cashback is based on the total amount added across these accounts. Minimum value, exclusions, T&Cs apply.

Value Amount
£50,000 - £74,999 £300
£75,000 - £99,999 £600
£100,000 - £249,999 £1,000
£250,000 - £499,999 £1,500
£500,000 - £749,999 £1,800
£750,000 - £999,999 £2,000
£1,000,000 or over £3,000

Your cashback will be paid directly into your Cash Management Account within 90 days following the closure of the offer (5 April 2026). If your transfer hasn’t completed by then, we’ll pay your cashback within 90 days after the completion of your last eligible transfer.

What should I check before transferring?

Our pension transfer factsheet explains what you need to consider, including fully comparing the benefits, charges and features offered.

Depending on the type of pension you have you might need to take financial advice on whether transferring is the right thing for you. There’s normally a charge for advice. If you're not sure, please speak to one of Fidelity's advisers or another authorised financial adviser.

Transfer in three simple steps

You can transfer a wide range of pensions to Fidelity. If you’re not sure about the type of pension you currently hold and what benefits are available to you, contact your pension provider.

Get your details ready

You’ll need your current pension details, National Insurance number and whether you want to transfer your pension as cash or keep your existing investments.

Apply to transfer

Complete our online form to start your transfer. You can also apply by phone or post. If you don't have a SIPP, we'll take you through opening one first.

We’ll do the rest

We'll work with your current provider to arrange your transfer. How long it takes depends on their process and whether you transfer as cash or keep your existing investments.

Please be aware that while the transfer takes place, you may be out of the market which means you could miss out on any growth or income that occurs during that time.

There are two ways to transfer a pension. You should read the differences as it could have an impact on your investments.

Transfer as cash

  • Your current investments will be sold and the proceeds moved to your Fidelity SIPP as cash.
  • While your pension is being transferred, it won’t be subject to any potential growth or losses from market rises and falls. 
  • Average transfer time is 10 days if your provider uses an electronic transfer system. If they don’t it could take up to 45 days.
  • Once your cash has transferred you can choose your new investments.

Find out more about a pension cash transfer.

Transfer investments as they are (re-registration)

  • If your current investments are available with us and your provider allows it, we'll keep you in the same investments (or a similar version). If not, they’ll be sold and moved to us as cash.
  • You can check if your investments are available on our platform using Investment Finder. At the moment you can’t re-register any US or international shares - these will be sold and the proceeds transferred as cash. 
  • You might not be able to change your investments while the transfer completes. 
  • Average transfer time is 12 weeks.

Find out more about the re-registration process.

Our SIPP fees and charges

Once you’ve transferred your pension to Fidelity, there’s a service fee for holding your pension with us. There will also be charges set by the company managing your funds, as well as charges for any share dealing you carry out.

Service fee rate

0.35%

typically £3.50 for every £1,000 invested*

Larger portfolios*

0.2%

and qualify for our Wealth Management Service

Buy and sell shares

£7.50

for share deals placed online

*0.35% service fee applies if you have a regular savings plan or have more than £25,000 invested. Otherwise, a £7.50 per month service fee applies. There will also be investment charges set by the companies and funds you’re investing into which sit outside of our service and dealing fees. 0.2% service fee applies to accounts with over £250,000 invested, and applies to the total value of your investments.

See our fees and charges in more detail

Why Fidelity?

1.7 million UK customers*

We're trusted with over £40 billion of our UK customers' savings

Over 50 years' experience

Our decades of experience can support you in achieving your financial goals

Here to help you with:

  • Choosing investments - giving you the flexibility to choose what best meets your needs from a wealth of options
  • Excellent customer service - our UK and Ireland-based support is available over the phone and online
  • Guidance, tools and expert insights - helping you feel confident about where to invest you money

*Source: Fidelity, as at 30.09.25

If you've lost the details for a workplace or personal pension, the government has a pension tracing service.

To use it, you just need the name of the employer (for a workplace pension) or personal pension provider.

Pension transfer FAQs

Sometimes the value of your pension can be different to what your provider will actually send to a new provider. This might be because of guarantees that are lost on transfer or charges your current provider will take if you leave now.

For example your pension might currently be worth £100,000 but because of the type of investment you hold, there's a 5% early withdrawal charge, which would make your transfer value £95,000. Your current provider should be able to explain how the difference is calculated.

Changing jobs is a good time to review your pensions and make sure that you’re happy with everything as your new company will normally start a new pension for you. A pension like the Fidelity SIPP can give you a place to transfer pensions from employers to keep them all in one place, but you should also think about your other options. These include leaving the pension where it is or transferring to your new company pension scheme, if that's possible.

Yes, there's a minimum transfer value:

  • If the transfer is from another pension provider and you’re going to immediately start taking money from it, the minimum is £50,000.
  • For all other transfers the minimum is £100. This could be:
    • a cash-only transfer
    • a combination of cash and existing pension funds
    • a pension that you’re already taking money from
    • an existing pension fund whether it's all of your fund holdings or a selection

You can transfer a wide range of pensions to Fidelity.

  • Personal pensions
  • Self-invested personal pensions
  • Stakeholder pensions
  • Defined-contribution occupational schemes
  • Pension schemes already paying a retirement income (pension drawdown plans)
  • Free-standing additional voluntary contribution (FSAVC) plans
  • Executive pension plans (EPPs)
  • Section 32 (buyout) plans
  • Defined benefit schemes (for example final salary pension schemes). Please read the next question about needing to take advice for this type of pension.

If you're in any doubt about whether a pension transfer or investment is suitable for you, you should speak to an authorised financial adviser.

If your pension has any safeguarded benefits or guarantees you must speak to either our  retirement specialists, Fidelity’s advisers or an authorised financial adviser of your choice before transferring it. The value of some benefits can be substantial and are normally lost once you transfer and cannot usually be reinstated. We may, at our discretion, accept a transfer from a pension that contains such benefits, if our requirements have been met. If you're not sure about the type of pension you currently hold, and what benefits it has, contact your pension provider.

Safeguarded benefits

Generally, for transfers containing safeguarded benefits, we'll need confirmation that you've had appropriate financial advice and that the advice confirmed it was in your best interests to transfer. Without this, we can't accept a transfer.

Safeguarded benefits generally offer a guaranteed level of income at retirement or provide a promise about the rate of secure pension income that could be received from your pension pot at a future date, normally when you retire.

They're typically found in older policies and are often valuable today, as many were written at a time when interest rates were much higher and people weren’t living as long. With lower interest rates and higher life expectancy, the guaranteed income from these plans is often much better than you could buy if you shopped around.

We generally consider the following to be safeguarded benefits:

  • Any defined benefit pension (for example a final salary or career average scheme). These pay a retirement income based on your salary and how long you’ve worked for your employer. They're typically only available from public sector or older workplace pension schemes.

  • Any pension arrangement that contains a guaranteed annuity rate (GAR) valued at £30,000 or more. This is a valuable guaranteed income sometimes offered by your own pension scheme or provider if you take a lifetime annuity with them. A GAR is likely to provide a higher guaranteed income than would normally be available on the open market.

  • Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) or Reference Scheme Test benefits (RST). If you have a GMP or RST, you originally built up pension rights in an employer’s scheme that was contracted out of the Additional State Pension. When this happened the new scheme had to promise to provide you with a pension broadly equivalent to the State Pension you would have received under the Additional State Pension. You may not be able to take these benefits early unless the pension pot is already large enough to cover the cost of providing the pension. Similarly, you may not be able to transfer a pension containing GMP or RST to another scheme unless the transfer value also covers the cost of providing the GMP or RST. When you transfer a pension containing GMP or RST to another pension scheme, that scheme has no obligation to provide benefits on the same basis.


The lists above don’t cover every scenario and you should research the benefits available to you within your existing pension before you request a transfer.

Fidelity’s retirement specialists can give you personal (paid-for) advice about transferring your pension. Call us on 0800 084 5045 to discuss your needs. We’ll base our recommendations on careful analysis of the value of your transfer in relation to your personal circumstances and goals. Please note - this is a complete advice service including investment recommendations, so wouldn't be suitable if you want to manage your own investments within your pension.

If you prefer, you can choose your own adviser and get them to complete and return the Third Party Advice Declaration to us, so we can process your request. MoneyHelper provides an online directory of regulated advisers. 

Other benefits

These generally do not provide guarantees of future income at retirement but may still be valuable. You'll need to provide confirmation that you're aware of the benefit you will be giving up by transferring but that you still want to go ahead.

From a Fidelity perspective, examples of such benefits include:

  • Protected tax-free cash (you can take more than the normal 25% of your fund as tax-free cash)
  • Protected pension age (you can access your pension earlier than age 55)
  • Guaranteed Annuity Rate (GAR) valued at less than £30,000 (likely to provide a higher guaranteed income than would normally be available on the open market)
  • Guaranteed investment returns (a guaranteed fixed increase on your money each year regardless of investment performance)
  • With-profits bonuses (if you are invested in a with-profits fund, you may benefit from annual and terminal/maturity bonuses depending on the underlying investment performance. You should consider how a transfer and the timing of it will impact the payment of those bonuses).

The above list is not exhaustive and you should research the benefits available to you within your existing pension before you request a transfer.

If your pension contains ‘other benefits’ but you still want to proceed with transferring your pension you can complete and return the Confirmation of benefits form.

If we identify any valuable benefits during the transfer process we’ll notify you and explain what we need from you before we can continue with your application. However, this could delay us in processing your application.

For free, independent and impartial information and guidance on workplace and personal pension matters visit  MoneyHelper

Before you apply to transfer a pension you’ve taken retirement benefits from, you must speak to Fidelity's Retirement Service. They’ll discuss the transfer with you and prepare the application form.

We’re unable to accept an online application for these types of transfer.

Any pensions you transfer remain in their tax-efficient wrappers and don’t count towards your pension tax allowances for the tax year.

Fidelity doesn’t charge you for transferring your pension to us, but your current provider might. If they do, we’ll cover up to £500 exit fees ( T&Cs apply). Of course, you need to decide whether these fees will impact the future value of your pension.

Download and complete the short Exit Fees Reimbursement Form

Send the form to us, along with a statement or letter from your previous plan manager confirming the exit fee charged to:
Fidelity International
PO Box 391
Tadworth
KT20 9FU

Please remember, you still need to complete the transfer application process online and qualify for the reimbursement.