Pleased to say my funds are in from St James Place and now working my SIPP myself.
Already increased my pot by 3% inside a week since moving to Freetradeā¦lol
Really wished I had a service like this when I was younger but hey ho, definitely the future of investing and managing your own finances. Appreciate that wonāt be for everyone but who is going to look after your money better than yourself.
The money has now left my vanguard account. How long will it disappear for who knows 
I initiated the process on 19/02
Freetrade confirmed and started the process with vanguard on 20/02
They responded to the initial request on 20/01
They Sold everything in 02/02
And messaged again on 10/02 that theyāve received the request to transfer and will do so
11/02 theyāve transferred the money out
Iām curious how long from money leaving their old sipp has it taken to appear in freetrade?
The funds left on the Saturday and arrived in my FT SIPP on the Wednesday for meā¦
Iāve used my other email when signing up for SIPP and Iāve received an invitation on that email on Jan 26ā¦ Is this somehow possible to open SIPP on my Freetrade account, which is on a different email address?
Someone will be making interest on your cash while it disappears from view for a few days 
update
Switch complete 
Such a smooth process, thanks Freetrade.
Now to come up with a retirement strategyā¦
Mine has just completed
Whole process from 19th Jan to 12th Feb
Also why are some companies not available?
BGCG isnāt available in the sipp?
Neither are US reits ??
Anyone know why? Particularly the BG China growth trust
Interesting! I want to invest in this oneā¦ BGCG that is
My transfer from Vanguard was super quick!
Yeah so did I but itās unavailable, no idea why. Itās available on a SIPP at HL
ive initiated a partial transfer from my workplace provider. lets see what happens
My workplace provider doesnāt allow partial transfers 
I have a check with mind before. as long as i leave Ā£100 in it it will stay open and contributions can keep being made
I was with Vanguard. From the time they receive the request (which should have been pretty immediate) theyāll then take a couple of weeks before finally transferring your balance.
I made a post of the timeline it took for me, you should be similar hopefully
Hmmmm. Maybe thatās a thing I need to try
My Vanguard was done in less than a week
Sounds odd. Did you threaten to transfer all & re-enroll straight away?
No, I just asked if I could partial transfer and keep my contributions coming in and they told me Iād have to transfer the lot and close if I did that
I would still file a partial transfer form with a new provider and send it off.
You might get quite a different answer when a transfer request comes in.
Whatās the point of pension freedoms if one cannot choose where to have pension.