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Square Mile International Financial Services – qualified and registered?

12 Comments / News / Angie / August 29, 2018

This week, in my mission to disclose advisory firms´ claims to qualifications (or in fact the lack of them), I am looking into Square Mile International Financial Services – qualified and registered? What the Square Mile website page says: Despite referring to their Prague headquarters in a lovely paragraph: “Square Mile has a dedicated customer […]

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Don´t put your trust in The Imperius Group

2 Comments / News / Angie / August 29, 2018

In my weekly hunt for the next firm to feature in my ´qualified and registered?´ blog series, I came across an advisory company that caught my attention: The Imperius Group, run by a fella named Tim Blogg, who claims to have retrained 25 years ago to offer pension and investment advice to expats. Regular followers

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Structured notes – knowing the risks

7 Comments / News / Angie / August 14, 2018

In many pension scams, we see the use of totally unsuitable, high-risk, for-professional-investor-only structured notes. These notes often offer the introducer high commissions. However, they are risky, fixed-term investments that often end in the loss of some – or even all – of the fund invested. Therefore, these types of investments are totally unsuitable for

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TailorMade International – gets a tailor-made fine reduction

Leave a Comment / News / Angie / August 14, 2018

Victims of the unregulated property scheme Harlequin, may be disheartened to know that Alistair Burns has escaped with a reduced fine for his role as chief executive of TailorMade International. The FCA originally proposed Burns should face a fine of £233,600, along with a ban back in December 2016. However, the Upper Tribunal, whilst upholding the ban, has

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Robusto Asset Management – qualified and registered?

4 Comments / News / Angie / August 14, 2018

If you have been following Pension Life´s blogs, you will know that we have been conducting a series of investigations into qualified and registered financial advisers in various firms. Today I am investigating Robusto Asset Management – qualified and registered? IFAs and their clients are invited to add to it, correct it, improve it. Here’s a link to

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STM Group Plc – announces trading update

5 Comments / News / Angie / August 13, 2018

STM Group has announced the following trading updates for the first half of this year. STM state that the first half of the year has progressed in line with management´s expectations. They refer to this with particular emphasis on their SIPPS program. For those readers who are unfamiliar with STM’s past investment scams, here is a

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Abbey Wealth Spain – qualified and registered?

4 Comments / News / Angie / August 13, 2018

Abbey Wealth Spain – qualified and registered? If you have been following Pension Life´s blogs, you will know that we have been conducting a series of investigations into qualified and registered financial advisers in various firms. Today, Abbey Wealth Spain – qualified and registered? Advisers and their clients are invited to add to it, correct it and

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Serious Violation of Investors’ Trust – by Investors Trust (life office)

2 Comments / News / Angie / August 13, 2018

Investors’ trust is what gets violated in so many cases by irresponsible and negligent insurance companies such as Old Mutual International, SEB, Generali, RL360, Friends Provident International – and, of course, the firm in the Cayman Islands: Investors Trust. These companies – also known as “life offices” (although we prefer to call them “death offices”

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Jailed – adviser who gambled his investors´ money away

Leave a Comment / News / Angie / August 9, 2018

49-year-old Freddy David of Elstree, Borehamwood, of North London, faces six years in jail for conning millions of pounds out of people in his community through an investment scam. David, once a well-respected member of his community and former financial adviser, obtained money by deception to fund his gambling habit. Figures of his scam are

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Protected: Forth Capital – qualified & registered?

News / Angie / August 9, 2018

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Trustees Must Block Transfers to Pension Scams

2 Comments / News / Angie / August 7, 2018

Trustees have the power to block pension transfers if they suspect a scam – they must use it! Now the Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against the Police trustee, there is hope for further justice against negligent pension trustees. In the Royal London v Hughes case, Royal London suspected an attempted transfer was destined to

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Linkedin – locked out

Leave a Comment / News / Angie / August 6, 2018

At Pension Life, we write about the good, the bad and the ugly faces of pension and investment news. Unfortunately, there is rarely much good – and quite frequently a lot of bad and ugly news. Using social media like Linkedin and Facebook, we get our blogs out to the masses – because that’s what

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