02033489869

I have mentioned these reviews to IPI and they informed me this is a competitor of theirs, They don't offer equity release and have had to even put this on there website, I feel sorry for these people , as i have dealt with them and they were so helpful even though I wasn't able to transfer in the end.

Are you saying that the other posts on here are from a competitor of IPI, or are you saying that the company which has 'phoned them and said it is IPI is a competitor or IPI?  In either case, what brought you to this site?  As you are aware, this site is to report unwanted, unknown and scam calls and positive posts are usually put on to try an convince people that a company is legitimate.

Got to laugh at the warning message  on ipi-services.com website claiming someone is using their name and the scam is nothing to do with them.

Not according to well respected financial news journalists Moneywise who have investigated and featured IPI Services in their scam of the week:

http://www.moneywise.co.uk/scams-rip-offs/sca ... ng-pension-scam

Quoted from the Moneywise article below
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To try to find out for myself exactly how brazen the perpetrators are, posing as a person of 54, with a £200,000 personal pension at a Scottish life company and with just a few months to go until the magic age of 55, I apply for information on these products from various websites and adverts.

Most of the companies say it would be disastrous to try to take any cash out of my pension until the age of 55 when I could take the traditional 25% tax-free lump sum. A few firms are, nevertheless, all too willing to get their hands on my life savings.
Sales pitch

For instance, at pensioncashtoday.com I fill in my details and I am promptly rung by a consultant for IPI Services, a sales operation based in Spain's Costa del Sol (ipi-services.com).

A consultant called Wendy Thorby tells me the whole of my pension could be transferred to a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) and invested in "high-performance products such as carbon credit, biomass investments or two different types of land, which have all performed well in recent years throughout the recession and are FSA and government-approved projects".

However, these projects cannot be FSA-regulated because alternative investments such as carbon credits, biomass projects and land fall outside the FSA's regulatory umbrella. The biomass project is operated by a firm called MBI, based in Luxembourg, and suggests an initial investment of £15,000 will turn in net returns of £140,909 over 25 years.

When pressed on the potential returns from the carbon credit scheme, Thorby says that just before Christmas 2011, a carbon credit was worth £2.50 and now they are worth £3 to £3.25, which is factually incorrect, and that a 20 to 21% annual return is predicted in future.

Thorby explains there are two choices: to take the 25% cash option and transfer the remaining £150,000 of my notional £200,000 fund to the investments suggested, in which case she would offer me a rebate of 15%; or to transfer the whole amount to the alternative investments, taking no cash, in which case she says I receive a rebate of 20%.

She denies the plan is illegal, saying: "The rebate is paid for by the receiving investment scheme but the full value of the residual pension fund is transferred over and remains invested.

"The pensions companies can't pay an incentive directly but are allowed to pay one to an introductory company [without falling foul of FSA rules]. No incentive can be paid directly, otherwise back in the UK people would be switching from one pension scheme to another constantly."

Thorby says clients who choose carbon credits or biomass would use an adviser called Central Tax, based in Solihull, Birmingham, while those who choose land investments would use an adviser called Brooklands Pensions.

Bamboozled by bamboo

Central Tax, run by directors Ian Paul Smith and Samantha Barrett (no relation to the Moneywise contributor), operates a completely separate SIPP provider called Central Tax and Trustees.

Smith says the vehicle is for execution-only SIPP business and many clients choose forestry investment in Plantation Capital, an appointed representative of Porta Verde Financial Services, registered in Egham, Surrey, and founded by Dean Henry and Leigh Charlton.

While still posing as a potential client, Adam Amode, an investment adviser at Plantation, suggests I personally invest my SIPP money in bamboo or carbon credits through Royal Exchange Carbon Credits, where the directors are also Henry and Charlton.

Meanwhile, IPI's Thorby tells me that one other investment on offer – Cayman Island land marketed by Crown World – has risen in price from £17,000 in 2007 to £40,000 in 2011, though she fails to provide a source for this information.

Thorby says clients who take up the offer also receive "free access" to IFA Sovereign Assets, based in London's Fleet Street and Gibraltar.

This firm is run by Christopher Labrow, formerly of Labrow International Asset Management, who, in 2006, was named in a press release issued by a firm of lawyers, IURA Despacho Juridico, representing the Costa del Sol Action Group, a group set up to help investors who believe they have been ripped off by unscrupulous advisers, and was summoned to court at that time. Labrow fails to respond to my phone calls.
Lacking incentive

There is nothing technically illegal about effecting a transfer from a contract-based pension into a SIPP and then investing the money offshore in traditional or alternative investments.

The same is true of the incentives suggested by IPI that are paid to the adviser by the end-investment company and then shared between the adviser and the client, in IPI's own admission, to get round the "incentive" rules.

However, it is precisely such schemes that are highlighted in the FSA's warning, and it points out that a 55% unauthorised withdrawal tax charge will be levied where pension benefits are taken early.
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has anyone actualy had a pension transfered by this company as i am about to start this process

Search for IPI Pensions.         You will find interesting results.

VERY INTERESTING
http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/41260/beware-pension-pirates

dosent realy help i need to now if there is actualy any good in this company

If you have read the link given by Old Mother Riley and are still not sure, read the post from "Dude" on here or you could even get independent financial advice.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105405168/USA-v-Wrobel-Et-Al-Doc-1-Filed-17-Apr-12

Jamie Lee Church from IPI Services is on a long list of co conspirators in a boiler room scam.

By the way, "Jamie Lee Church" and "Charlotte Keys" are the same person. It seems the team split over $5million between themselves. Not bad for a few months work!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105405168/USA-v-Wrobel-Et-Al-Doc-1-Filed-17-Apr-12

23 Feb 2013's MoneyBox BBC Radio 4 Programme continued to discuss the great Pension Liberation Scam with the Minister responsible for pensions, Steve Webb. Listen to the grilling Webb gets and how little the government is doing despite the £4 million a week being scammed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qspjg PENSION UNLOCKING
For the third week we return to the growing crime of persuading people to transfer their pension savings into recently registered pension schemes and taking huge fees for illegally letting them have some of their money back. This week - the legal aspects. Is the law adequate to help trustees stop the transfer when they suspect a scam? And if not, will the Government pass new laws to protect desperate people from the crooks - and themselves? We speak to a pensions lawyer and Pensions Minister Steve Webb.

PDF Tapescript:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/program ... x_23_feb_13.pdf

MP3 Audio:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/mo ... 30223-1204a.mp3

Related Links:
Action Fraud: Pension Liberation Scam:  www.actionfraud.police.uk
The FSA: Consumers warned over pension liberation schemes www.fsa.gov.uk
The Pensions Regulator: Pension liberation fraud www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
The Pension Advisory Service: Pension liberation plans www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk
The Money Advice Service: Pensions: www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk

MoneyBox E-mail your questions www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/money-box/contact/ or call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday.

i am in the process of transfering my police pension to this company, i can no longer get hold of Wendy and the phone number is dead - what can i do and have i been ripped off??

hi can anyone tell me the name of sipp company where you had your money transfer to

My stepson died in last year and amonge his papers I found some transfers of funds to the Royal Exchange Carbon Advisory of over £50,000.  I have not contacted them yet, but will in the future....can someone give me a heads-up on how to approach this situation?  Is  there any  hope of recovering these funds.....anyone try it?  Help!!!!  They didnt call me, but most certainly called him I would think?  Is a company called "Renol" connected with this lot?