Holborn Assets Dubai – under the questionable leadership of Bob Parker – has been responsible for ruining quite a number of victims’ pensions. With a deft waggle of the Holborn Assets magic wand, a pension transferred from a gold-plated final salary scheme can be reduced by at least 50% in just a couple of years. […]
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Scammers are loathed by victims, regulators, police, ombudsmen and financial services professionals whose professional reputations are compromised by the nefarious practices of the scam merchants. But however damning the hard evidence is about the scams and the various promoters, introducers, advisers, administrators behind them, the scammers still protest their innocence. Even when there are announcements
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Knowing how to spot a scammer is half the battle in the fight against pension and investment scams. And my idol and hero in this fight is Darren Cooke of Red Circle Financial Planning. Armed with his petition calling for a cold-calling ban, he quickly became a t.v. star and National celebrity. UPDATE: Cold-calling has
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DALRIADA V ARK VICTIMS: “ABUSE OF VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC” The Beddoe proceedings of Dalriada (tPR-appointed independent trustees) v Goldsmith (representative beneficiary for the Ark members) kicked off on 20th June 2017 in the High Court. It was a sweltering day in central London – humid and dusty at the same time. The Ark
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IF – INVESTMENT FRAUD CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS In the famous poem extolling Victorian virtues – Kipling advises: “if you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools, you’ll be a man my son!” Investment Fraud Victims’ Group Action and Task
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Holborn Assets has been trying to calculate how much victim Glynis Broadfoot is due in compensation for loss to her pension fund invested by them for the past five years. But it is an uphill struggle and I am not entirely sure that poor old Bob Parker hasn’t either lost his marbles altogether, or never
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It takes balls to stand as a parliamentary candidate. It takes even bigger balls (or cojones as they say here in Spain) to champion a thorny cause and table an early day motion.Please vote for Greg if you are in Leeds North West. If you are in another constituency, please post and re-post this; tell
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It is rare for me to say nothing. On this occasion, STM Group has stated they are going to stick their heads in the sand and zip their lips. They have facilitated a financial crime…….OK, enough said. For now. I will leave it to STM Group/Fidecs to decide what goes into this blog. They have
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The Serious Fraud Office has asked victims of the Capita Oak, Henley, Westminster and Trafalgar Multi Asset Fund scams to make a report so that these crimes can be investigated. But I am urging all victims of ALL scams to also make reports to the SFO, please. This story was first published by
SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE REQUESTS PENSION AND INVESTMENT SCAM REPORTS Read More »
There is growing concern about Peter Moat and Sara Moat of Fast Pensions. There have been a number of Pensions Ombudsman’s determinations which expressed concerns about the maladministration of the unlicensed firm owned/run by the Moats. One of these was reported by FT Adviser on 10th May 2017: Fast Pensions told to pay £79k death
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THE PENSION LIFE TICK CAMPAIGN: now that Andrew Warwick-Thompson, Executive Director for Regulatory Policy at the Pensions Regulator is joining LGPS Central as CEO, it is time for him to help us to ensure all negligent ceding providers compensate their victims. No doubt Andrew will engage enthusiastically with this campaign and lead by example. tPR Chair
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Gambling is a very strictly controlled industry – and rightly so. Every individual jurisdiction has its own gambling or casino licenses which are usually very expensive and onerous to obtain and keep. Where large amounts of cash change hands every minute, it is obviously important to impose strict conditions and ensure that regulations are complied
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