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Gary Robinson of International Adviser - Making Plans For Nigel

INTERNATIONAL ADVISER’S GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES AWARDS 2025 By Gary Robinson

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Gary Robinson,  journalist and filmmaker, now heads up International Adviser. IA poses as a financial services news magazine. In reality, it is a rag for promoting the products of the life offices (more accurately known as death offices) such as Utmost International, RL360, Hansard and Investors Trust. This enriches the commission-hungry firms – such as DeVere, Guardian Wealth Management, Holborn Assets and Mondial in Dubai.

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Utmost Leonteq Fraud

Utmost Leonteq Fraud

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Insurance bonds and QROPS continue to flourish with thousands of victims being defrauded into these arrangements every year. The Leonteq structured note fraud has now settled out of court and there is some limited compensation payable to victims of Utmost International’s investment scams.

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TOP 3 WORST LIFE OFFICES

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For over a decade, life offices (more accurately known as “death” offices) have been the centre of millions of pounds’ worth of destroyed pensions. So here we are going to name the top 3 worst life offices… These are just some of the things they’ve been up to: Collaborating with scammers: unregulated, rogue firms posing

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Pension Scams Explained

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Every offshore pension scam starts with a “financial advisor”. Or, at least, a slick salesman posing as a financial adviser.   This person can also call himself a “wealth consultant” or “senior associate”. After the scammer pretending to be an adviser, the next player is the life office. More accurately described as a “death” office, this

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International Adviser invites Pension Life to enter the Best Practice Adviser Awards in partnership with Quilter International

International Adviser Awards

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International Adviser Awards create buzz around Quilter’s, FPI’s and RL360’s facilitation of investment fraud and scams. I am deeply flattered that International Adviser has invited me to enter for this year’s “Best Practice Adviser Awards”.  The invitation was sitting – sparkling like a princess – in my inbox this morning.  So, how could I refuse?

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RL360 and FPI - a marriage made in hell for the victims of mis-sold, high-risk, unsuitable investments such as structured notes, LM, Axiom and Premier New Earth

RL360 and FPI – ’til death (or poverty) do us part

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RL360’s acquisition of Friends Provident International may be set to ruin even more investors internationally. It will certainly increase competition with Quilter (or Skandia, or Ann Summers or whatever OMI are calling themselves this season). The biggest question – and one which International Adviser’s Kirsten Hastings forgot to ask RL360 David Kneeshaw when she interviewed

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Generali – jumping ship to avoid new regulations?

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The mis-selling of life assurance policies and long-term savings plans has been a regular topic in our blogs.  Many victims of pension scams see their funds mis-invested into life assurance policies. These life assurance policies do little more than drain the fund value with their expensive fees and costs. Generali has for years been aggressively

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Time for all pension providers to wake up and stop pension scams

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The recent PSIG (Pension Scams Industry Group) Scams Survey Pilot 2018 has identified seven “key” findings in their survey. As scam watchers, we are well aware of these points and are, of course, glad they have been highlighted. PSIG’s key finding are set out below.  So let us admit one key fact: ALL PENSION SCAMS START WITH A

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