Money doesn’t grow on trees – especially pension money and teak trees. Teak plantations, eucalyptus plantations and truffle tree farms are traditional pension “investments” of the scammers. One key example of such a pension investment scam was in May 2014 when the Pensions Regulator (tPR) banned the following scammers from being pension trustees for one […]
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The Pensions Regulator’s Lesley Titcomb has now officially and publicly declared that scammers are criminals. This begs the urgent question: why have so few – if any – of them been prosecuted? What we need now is all of the scammers behind bars and the keys thrown away. The purpose of the recently-published ebook “Anatomy
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This is the claim made by Holborn Assets’ CEO Bob Parker: “We are professional advisers adhering to the company’s mission which is to ensure that you get quality, independent advice and service, that your money is put in the right place at the right time and that you are treated with integrity and respect. Moreover,
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Philip Hammond’s surprise 25% tax on QROPS transfers will leave many advisers and trustees floundering as the industry tries to make some sense of the long-term consequences for expatriates and their pensions. The uncertainty of the “five-year” change of circumstances rule will leave a huge question mark over the offshore landscape. But while the industry
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RESPONSE TO GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON PENSION SCAMS AND COLD CALLING BY ANGIE BROOKS OF PENSION LIFE 13.2.2017 The Government consultation has been copied below,with my comments and answers in bold. —————————— —————————— —————————— Because of the size of individual pension pots, and because people do not have to engage with their savings until much later
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STM Trafalgar Pension Scam Seriously–is this yet another wind up? STM want to be voted as “National Public Champion”? All of STM’s allegedly world-leading people will have known that it was illegal to promote a UCIS to retail UK residents. Unless STM’s claims about their excellent pensions team are just a wind up? After International
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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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