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Must Britains be slaves to online pension fraud?
In yesterday’s debate on Online Harms, I urged the Minister to act to stop people losing their pension savings through scams. The Government doesn’t want to tackle this in its Online Safety Bill. It needs to think again. pic.twitter.com/uU5CRBMpOW — … Continue reading
Keith Popplewell – Yorick’s sorry tale.
Alas poor Keith .. I knew him… When I joined Eagle Star in 1995, Keith was the star turn, an exceptional speaker, a mine of technical information and a bon viveur, Keith was a sales director’s dream. And like any showman, … Continue reading
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Tagged Capita Oak, Fraud, Hamlet, keith popplewell, Popplewell, Store First, Store Pod, Yorick
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FEAR+FRAUD. Does Geneva= Gibraltar? Are SIPPs the new QROPS?
This bog is about fear and how it can be used by the unscrupulous to frighten them into putting their retirement at risk. The unscrupulous fear-monger is the self-appointed UKPension Guru (Clive Skane-Davis) of Swiss Global Consulting; you can … Continue reading
Zacchaeus – the short-arsed scammer who came good.
Zacchaeus -Remember him? Zacchaeus was a tax man who one day climbed a tree For he was short in stature and said he could not see And yet he had a problem, that mattered even more He didn’t see the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Compensation, Fraud, Jesus, Luke, Scam, Scandal, short-arse, Zacchaeus
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Anatomy of a scam; lessons from Providence and Lumiere
If there’s anything good that can come out of the Providence Group’s global network of deceit, it is that it is exposed and offers us its full anatomy. Yesterday I tried to lay out the anatomy at length – I … Continue reading
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Tagged Fraud, Guernsey, Jersey, Lumiere, Lumiere funds, Lumiere wealth, Providence, RBS, RBS International
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“Trust me , I’m a scorpion”
I was born at 11.02am on 11th November 1961, according to my star chart ,the sun, the moon, all the houses and for all I know Planet Pluto are in Scorpio, which makes me a little worried. This is no … Continue reading
How safe is your workplace pension?
The opportunity to improve pension fund charging. Let us pause for a moment and consider what we are buying into when we set up a workplace pension for our staff. On the face of it, nobody enrolled into a workplace … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, alternatives, AMC, annual management charge, auto enrolment, charges, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Fraud, Fund Manager, MAF, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension fund, pensions, workplace
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Telling tales or tipping off?
There is a fine line between campaigning journalism and incompetent meddling. Those whose jobs it is to stamp on malfeasance see the campaigners not as crusaders but as a menace. Those who campaign see those in authority not as allies but … Continue reading
Posted in Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, Pensions Regulator, Ros Altmann
Tagged Actionfraud, blogging, DWP, Fraud, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pension liberation fraud, Pension new, Pension Regulator, PensionPlaypen, pensions, Politics, Retirement, The Pension Regulator, tipping off, TPR
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I smell a (pensions) rat – what can I do?
An advert appeared yesterday on the Pension Play Pen Linked In Group.. If you’re in our Group, you can see it here The organisation – Save My Pension is offering a “route to market” with the message from its Director Danny Smith … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, alternative investment, Employment, Financial services, Fraud, Gallium, Guidance, Investing, Investment, Investment management, liberation, occupational pension scheme, Pension Liberation, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pension scheme, Retirement, route to market, Scam
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What do you do when the lights go out?
Professional Pensions run the story of the £22.9m fine dished out to State Street who had been double charging clients for years. I had thought of custodians till recently as their name suggests as guardians of assets, not as asset strippers. … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, governance, pensions
Tagged Banks, Business, Custodian, custody, Employment, finance, Financial services, Fraud, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pensions, Retirement, State Street, Theft
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