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Premier New Earth Recycling (NERR) Investment Scam

Premier New Earth Recycling and Renewables PLC (in liquidation) is being wound up by Deloittes.  Joint liquidators Alexander Cameron Adam and David Peter Craine have written to shareholders to say the directors of NERR aren’t being terribly helpful.  Apparently, they are refusing to cooperate with the investigation into why the company failed and are insisting […]

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High Court finally winds up the truffle saga pension scam

This could possibly be described as wonderful news for the victims of Viceroy Jones New Tech Ltd, Viceroy Jones Overseas PCC Limited, Westcountrytruffles Limited, Truffle Sales Ltd and Credit Free Limited.  Or maybe not.  The whereabouts of the funds is unknown. This pension liberation and investment scam saw 100 investors conned out of £9m of

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Pensions Regulator – Light Speed with Gleeson Bessent Trustees

TPR launches first fraud prosecution I am not often left speechless, but in this case all I can say is: WOW! The Pensions Regulator announced on 11th December 2018 that it is to launch its first fraud case – against Roger Bessent of Gleeson Bessent Trustees in the matter of the Focusplay Retirement Benefit Scheme.

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Ombudsman upholds Capita Oak transfer complaint – sort of

A victim of the Capita Oak pension scam has had his Pensions Ombudsman’s complaint upheld in part ONLY.  His ceding trustee, JLT Benefits Solutions Limited (JLT), has been ordered to pay compensation but has not been held responsible for his loss. When my children were young, I always tried to treat them all equally.  They

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GERARD ASSOCIATES – FCA-REGULATED SCAMMING

Gerard Associates – an FCA-regulated firm – makes the case for regulating the “profession” of scamming.  One of Gerard Associates’ victims, a Police officer, complained to the Financial Ombudsman.  He had been scammed out of his Police pension and into the London Quantum pension scam by Gary Barlow of Gerard Associates and Stephen Ward of

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Where’s my pension?

Henry Tapper has published an interesting article about the problem of the number of lost pensions. We live in an age where careers are much more fluid and many people move companies or retrain and change professions. This mean many people may have had five or six different jobs (if not more) throughout their working career.

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Guest Blog: A new model challenge to the offshore sharks

This blog was writtern almost nine years ago by: Carl Melvin BA (Hons), MSc, CFP, FPFS, Chartered FCSI Certified & Chartered Financial Planner, Affiliate of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners, Chartered Wealth Manager. Somethings don’t change! A new model challenge to the offshore sharks The arrival of wraps allows fee-based financial planners in

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FT Adviser Top 100 Financial Advisers 2018

I have enormous respect for FT Adviser.  Their articles are written by proper journalists and they generally write competently and professionally.  FT Adviser puts International Adviser to shame with their thinly-disguised promotional shows and Micky Mouse “articles” which only ever promote their own sponsors – Old Mutual International and their ilk. It was really interesting

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Long-Term Savings Pig

Long-term savings plans by Friends Provident, Generali, Zurich, Hansard and RL360.  These have been around for years and are typically mis-sold by seedy, unregulated advisory firms.  Why don’t we come up with an alternative? THE LONG-TERM SAVINGS PIG! Roughly speaking, the con artists at Friends Provident, Generali, Zurich, Hansard and RL360 structure these products so that

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International Adviser – Have I Got News For You!

International Adviser really can’t make up its mind whether it is organising a piss-up in a brewery, a news roundup carefully slewed in favour sponsors Old Mutual International, or a marketing machine.  I read with interest the recent  IA Industry Most Influential Top 100 described by IA thus: “we at International Adviser decided to shine a light

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