5G Futures: in May 2013 Garry John Williams and Susan Lynn Huxley were suspended as trustees of the 5G Futures pension scheme, and from trust schemes in general. Pi Consulting was appointed as the new trustee by the Pensions Regulator. About 400 people had invested a total of £20m into the 5G Futures scheme – […]
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COMPLAINT AGAINST THE PENSIONS REGULATOR RE THE ARK (AND OTHER) PENSION SCHEMES 30.12.2016 From ANGELA BROOKS OF PENSION LIFE BACKGROUND: PENSIONS REGULATOR’S OBLIGATIONS AND OBJECTIVES: ARK VICTIMS’ CIRCUMSTANCES: BACKGROUND: This official complaint is against the Pensions Regulator and other public bodies who were, or should have been, responsible for preventing pension scams and
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COMPLAINT AGAINST HMRC 30.12.2016 RE ARK PENSION AND OTHER PENSION LIBERATION SCHEMES COMPLAINANTS: VICTIMS OF PENSION SCAMS AND MEMBERS OF THE PENSION LIFE GROUP ACTION: AND MEMBERS OF THE PENSION LIFE GROUP ACTION: AND MEMBERS OF THE PENSION LIFE GROUP ACTION: BACKGROUND: HMRC’S OBLIGATIONS AND OBJECTIVES: WHAT HMRC MUST NOW DO TO PUT THINGS
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My name is Nikki Mitchell. Lets peep behind the scenes at life at Pension Life, fighting pension scams. I’m the newest member of the team. I started in June 2016 – there was a lot to learn in six months. I am PA to Angie, but most importantly I handle a wide variety of
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GUARDIAN WEALTH MANAGEMENT AND HOLBORN ASSETS A TALE OF TWO PUZZLES Don’t you just hate it when you see a puzzling situation and can’t quite put your finger on what is behind it? There are two firms in Dubai that have got me thinking these past few days and I reckon the “jungle drums” in
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Zero Tolerance approach to pension scams It is rare for me to want to copy somebody else’s work, but Dalriada Trustees’ Neil Copeland wrote a very good piece on 20th December 2016 about three “hurricanes” which hit us this year: Altmann, Brexit and Trump. With an astonishing degree of imaginative and creative inspiration, Neil referred
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Trafalgar Multi Asset Fund – DISASTER. “Gibraltar is a highly regulated and transparent jurisdiction, coupled with the benefits of a Gibraltar-based regulatory regime.” Well, we will see won’t we!! STM is now writing to their distressed members who are invested in the suspended £20 million Trafalgar Multi-Asset fund. STM are stating: “All members who invested
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https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pension-scams/pensions-scams-consultation So what makes a pension or investment scam? Unfortunately, the scammers don’t wear “I’m a fox” teeshirts, and the victims don’t know the questions to ask and even if they did, they probably wouldn’t understand the answers. Only by looking at individual case studies can the public learn what to look out for –
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John Ferguson, Square Mile Financial Services http://www.lillywhiteint.com/about-us.html I am worried about the whereabouts of John Ferguson of Lillywhite International and Square Mile Financial Services (Czech Republic). The last I heard he was boarding a long-haul flight on 23rd November 2016 to an unknown destination. His solicitor assured me Mr. Ferguson would get back to me
AVIVA – CAMPAIGN AGAINST PENSION SCAMS Pension Life – representing hundreds of victims of pension scams – has been engaging with ceding providers to seek a solution to the failures of regulation and the law which continue to fail to halt the success of scams and scammers. One of the earliest pioneers and champions of
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Can I have a word please? In fact – can I have three words? free loophole sophisticated Now, these are not just any old words – they are the keys the scammers use to unlock victims’ savings and make huge amounts of money out of destroying innocent people’s retirement income: http://www.professionaladviser.com/professional-adviser/feature/2441535/revealed-the-top-three-watchwords-in-pension-liberation-scams Let´s look at these
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The Scorpion Campaign was the Pensions Regulator’s attempt to warn the public and the industry against pension liberation scams. It wasn’t a bad try, but it failed. It was a bit like trying to stop a herd of stampeding elephants with a whoopee cushion. Henry Tapper, pensions actuary and dedicated blogger on pensions, posted this:
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