
The important, retirement-saving question you NEED to ask: How safe is your SIPP pension?
04/04/2017
04/04/2017
04/04/2017
Finally, the mainstream media has started to pick up on the huge issues within the pensions industry; pension mis-selling. People now have much more freedom to cash in their pensions at the age of 55, and this has triggered an increase in some unscrupulous companies getting their hands on people’s pension pots and investing them … Continued
03/04/2017
Is the full scale of the pension mis-selling about to be revealed? The Financial Ombudsman Service has revised the number of cases it expects to handle that involve pensions and investments from 13,100 to 16,000 for the 2017/2018 period, an increase of 22%. While the Ombudsman has NOT stated any singular or particular reason … Continued
19/07/2016
£77m is a lot of investor capital, and many investors in US property reclamation scheme InvestUS will likely be wishing they hadn’t contributed to it, as CityWire continues to expose the gravy train that led to some investors missing their interest payments for more than 2 years. Registered in the Seychelles and run by Stephen … Continued
13/05/2016
If you needed more evidence to cement your suspicions that some IFA’s simply aren’t up to the job when it comes to offering pensions, SIPPs and investments suitable for the client, you need look no further than the FCA’s recent comments to Wealth Manager. Anybody that has been mis-sold their pension will KNOW that some … Continued
21/03/2016
In a powerful article about pension investments the Sun’s Kelvin MacKenzie suggested that Bournemouth based investment group Ethical Forestry should be subject to a fraud investigation, amid calls from other investors left out in the cold. Ethical Forestry was a high-risk unregulated investment scheme that allowed savers to invest a minimum of £18,000 into a … Continued
17/12/2015
CIB Life and Pensions went into liquidation back in May 2015, shortly after the Financial Ombudsman found them at fault regarding advice given on unregulated investments. CIB seem to have regularly given advice on unregulated investments, particularly overseas property schemes in exotic locations, some of which are no longer paying their promised returns, such as … Continued