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 is Woodbrook Group – qualified and registered? See question 5 on our blog about the ten essential questions to ask any advisory firm you are considering using: […]
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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: are Globaleye Dubai’s advisers qualified and registered? IFAs and their clients are invited to add to it, correct it, improve it. Here’s a link to the three
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FNB International Trustees Guernsey has been caught facilitating financial crime. With their pants firmly around their ankles, they are now trying to “defend” their actions using law firm Carey Olsen and are threatening the victim of this crime with adverse costs. And this is what we always find so hard to comprehend: a trustee firm
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Fast Pensions – Slow Law Enforcement – Stationary Regulators – same old, same old. Looks like the embarrassment of our hopeless, lazy and impotent regulators and limp law enforcement when it comes to financial crime has struck yet another blow for justice and another goal for the scammers in this case the Moats of Fast
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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 is Spectrum IFA Group – qualified and registered? IFAs and their clients are invited to add to it, correct it, improve it. Here’s a link
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I’ve been very concerned about Dolphin Trust GmbH for some time. There’s an awful lot of pension money being loaned to this company – and I don’t get to hear of many (in fact any) people who have had their loans repaid. That doesn’t mean they haven’t been repaid – it just means I haven’t heard
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International Investment has written a jolly good article about the recent action taken by the UAE Insurance Authority – headed up by His Excellency Ibrahim Al Zaabi. I quote from Gary Robinson’s article: “In a statement on the Arabic version on its website the IA has issued a circular confirming the suspension (of Holborn Assets) for a
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Can Blacktower Spain fare any better than other companies we have looked into? How many of their advisers will come out 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 is
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Today I am investigating the Blevins Franks Spain office – let’s see how qualified and registered their financial team are. Many advisers claim to be qualified, but if they do not appear on either the CII or CISI register, you can’t check out what their qualifications actually are. IFAs and their clients are invited to
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Most victims of pension and investment scams bitterly regret not having asked more questions with regards to their financial planning. The problem is that they wouldn’t have known what questions to ask, and they probably wouldn’t have understood the answers even if they had. Pension Life offer you 10 essential questions to ask an IFA so
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John Rodges had a pension pot of £202,000. He was cold called by a salesman called Dean Stogsdill and persuaded to transfer his pension fund to a QROPS (Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme) with Continental Wealth Management (CWM pension scam using high-risk, professional-investor-only structured notes which Stogsdill referred to as “Blue Chip Notes”). With false
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Holborn Assets’ Kensington Fund – Another trap to ruin victims. Why do I say that? There are many reasons: Firstly, Holborn Assets should compensate the existing victims of past scams before contemplating moving on to new ones. There are plenty of Holborn Assets clients facing disastrous losses because of being invested in toxic UCIS funds
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