When I grow up, I want to be a hairdresser. Not a care in the World other than how short/long/blonde/purple/curly/straight my clients want their Barnets. And nothing to talk about other than where they will go on holiday: Torremolinos, Benidorm or Amsterdam (wink wink…). But for now, I’m stuck in the real World – the […]
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By August 2019, one billion pounds’ worth of investments had been lost. That’s an awful lot of noughts: £1,000,000,000 (I nearly ran out of fingers). How many hours’ worth of work went into earning that huge amount? How many miles of travelling to work to earn that money? How many dreams have been shattered? How
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The FC A hasn’t got a ****ing Scooby. The Federation of Consolidated Apathy has now proved way beyond reasonable doubt that it is clueless about pensions in general. And worse – much worse – that it doesn’t understand the deadly problems with DB pension transfer advice. The Federation of Consolidated Apathy has published a video
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Alliance Partnership – ‘ere we go again! Just how many warning signs do you need? Alliance Partnership – ‘ere we go again! After the Continental Wealth Management debacle – a fraud facilitated by the usual suspects: Old Mutual International, Generali and SEB – the public must be warned about similar firms which are likely to
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Action Fraud – the biggest fraud of all. No “action”; plenty of “fraud”. Fraud victims defrauded into believing action will be taken. Of course, pension scam victims have known this for years. This is true of all the thousands of victims of frauds committed by serial pension scammers – such as Stephen Ward, Alan Fowler,
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Mail on Sunday’s Laura Shannon met a group of victims of the Continental Wealth Management scam in Denia in July 2019. Here is a link to her excellent article Continental Wealth Management – “Plunder in paradise”: MAIL ON SUNDAY ARTICLE All power to her, this young lady put all other would-be investigative journalists to shame.
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Locked out of LinkedIn for Defamation? Moi? “Due to the receipt of multiple defamation claim reports, your account has been restricted pending your agreement to our terms. Please note that it’s our policy to terminate user accounts when we receive multiple reports of this nature.” But who could have reported me for defamation? The problem
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STEEL YOURSELF FOR A LETTER FROM LINLITHGOW BY ALAN STEEL A SHORT HISTORY OF RISK AND REWARD Always happy to sit back and let somebody else do all the work. This week Alan Steel of Alan Steel Asset Management has kindly volunteered to do this for me. Alan is writing – knowledgeably
Boris Johnson for PM – sorting out pension scams? Hey BJ – just a quick note to wish you luck in the PM contest. If you win, please make it your priority to sort out pension fraud. Treating head lice – like fighting pension scammers – is a matter of the utmost urgency. Everyone knows
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Woodford Equity Income Fund – perhaps a wonderful opportunity to get investment management and advice right at last? There is a huge difference between an investment scam and a fund which is in trouble because of an error of judgement (as pointed out by Stephen Sefton – an expert on pension and investment scams as
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Blevins Franks has reported Pension Life for defamation on LinkedIn – a right old cock up as all I did was state the facts and the truth as defined by Spanish law and regulations. Dear Blevins Franks. I am very upset about the Blevins Franks cock up with LinkedIn. You think I’ve written something defamatory,
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Fact Finds and Risk assessments are critical to measuring a clients appetite for risk and their subsequent suitability for particular schemes. Too often these are overlooked and products with high commissions are sold. This needs to change. Standard 4 of our 10 standards is key to this change.
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