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The FSA register ( Now the FCA ) is interesting reading.

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/firmIndivSearc ... Type=1&surname=

This firm only has a small number of registered advisers ( 12 in total ). Nearly all of them have very limited experience in UK financial services, often with no previous experience at all.

One of the main areas of business , outside of the UK, is pension transfers to QROPS. However, the UK firm does not have permission to deal or advise on pension transfers within the UK. So, if a returning expat needs advice about the transfer that may have been undertaken while abroad, then an IFA with pension transfer permission must be sought.

DeVere ,after years of playing Cat and Mouse with The Belgium Regulatory Authority, have now lost their licence in Belgium. They were mis-using it in many ways, selling non authorised products & passporting into Cyprus & other EU countries. About bloody time someone took a robust and punative approach to them. Well done Belgium !!

Lodge & Pratt ...a dream team ! Two unscrupulous knobs !

Great news about Devere losing its Belgian license in Belgium.

Lodge & Pratt sounds like a great company name.

UK business set to expand, apparently.

http://www.international-adviser.com/news/eur ... announces-rejig

"In its statement today announcing the consolidation of its European operations, deVere did not mention the loss of its Belgium licence, but said that it is “to expand its operations in the UK, Germany and Spain, and simultaneously to withdraw its smaller operations in Belgium and Portugal”....In today's statement, Mike Coady, deVere Group director said: “We feel our qualified and appropriately-licensed financial advisers in the UK would now be better-placed to help our clients in Portugal and Belgium [to] reach their long-term financial objectives."

Recent thread from PissedConsumer: http://devere-group.pissedconsumer.com/what-happened-to-the-devere-united-asset-management-fund-20130405398332.html

"This is not a complaint but an enquiry.
Does anyone know why Devere have suspended the UAM Fund?
There seems to be no information and the website www.uam-sarl.com says nothing.
I know that they are now pushing a new fund to clients (as i received their global mail shot) called the Titanium Advisers Private Equity Fund of which there is no information at all on the web bar a cheaply designed web portal that funnily enough has a similar layout and appearance as the UAM site.
Interestingly the UAM fund closed last month and the Titanum Fund is brand new with only back tested results to show for.
Did they dump the UAM fund to open Titanium???
Does anyone have any thoughts or can a Devere employee shed some light on this?

Colin:
A change was made to the entry for United Asset Management in the Swiss Federal Commercial Registry in October last year. The name of Nigel Green, a partner in UAM, was replaced with the name of a Gibraltar company called Frontier Holdings Limited, likewise a partner in UAM. Valais Invesetment Management underwent the same change. Green's name has disappeared from the UAM entry, but his past connection with the company can be found by Googling: "nigel green" "united asset" site:ch. Is Nigel Green connected to Frontier Holdings Limited? Impossible to say, since Frontier Holdings is based in Gibraltar. Coincidentally, the contact page of the Titanium Advisers website also gives a Gibraltar address: Titanium Advisers Ltd, Suite 2b, 143 Main Street, Gibraltar. Googling that address shows that it is the address of Sovereign Trust. Put Sovereign Trust's name into the Swiss Federal Commercial Register and compare the entry with the entry for Devere Group GmbH: they share a manager."

162% of what? This increase in business is an impressive figure but 162% of not a lot is still not very much is it? To be fair they are both surviving and thriving in the UK with some credible new senior staff supporting. Credit where credit is due.....

Are the credible new senior staff listed on the FCA register?  None of Devere's staff on the FCA register are shown as having worked for any other FCA-approved company before Devere. Their FCA records date mostly to 2012, with one person dating back to 2010.
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/firmIndivSearc ... Type=1&surname=

Evening with Charles Kennedy above. Only a week to go (event scheduled for 19 April) and the link has disappeared from the Internations site. So is this event actually going ahead?

https://twitter.com/nigeljgreen
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=173731

"The deVere Group ventures into the Cayman Islands ... April 25, 2013...

The deVere Group Caymans Ltd will mark the company’s first office in the Caribbean and will be headed by Chief Executive Officer Mr Nigel Green and long-time deVere Executive, Mr Simon Pratt.  
 
The deVere Group Cayman Islands presence is expected to be established on West Bay Road in Grand Cayman - in the heart of the Cayman Islands’ financial industry.

The deVere Group Caymans Ltd will specialise in Insurance Brokerage, whilst delivering yet another promise to its clientele to be wherever they choose to live around the world. ..."

"Career in Abu Dhabi - Nigel Green CEO of the deVere group"
"Career in Financial Services - deVere group CEO Nigel Green"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGylt-T_EM

So, Simon Pratt has finally emerged after a long time periof of self seclusion. Mr Pratt and Mr Green, you caused me and my family to break up following huge financial problems with your false promiises of 'offshore tax free earnings of 150K',you promised everything, i believed your smooth sales talk.I lost .......... I will never forgive you for that. You are disgusting people.

1. it now seems as if Mr Pratt is re-emerging with the group in the Cayman Islands - I told you my source was less than credible!

2. Re staff - try  looking at the record of Mitch Hopkinson and you will see what I mean

3. I see that JP Morgan are under regulator scrutiny but they have a variety of arrangements with the group. I see that RBS remain in financial difficulty and 82% owned by the tax payer but they have a variety of arrangements with the group - is there some type of trend here???

Recent BBC interview with a Devere Group rep on HMRC's tax haven crackdown, including in the Cayman Islands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2mzZXd0TVo

Plus recent Nigel Green video on "the blogs": http://www.youtube.com/user/deveregroupchannel

Seriously, it's true: http://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/devere-partners

http://www.financialplanneronline.co.uk/artic ... authorised-firm

"A warning was issued by the Financial Conduct Authority earlier this month about the unauthorised firm. The firm has cloned deVere's address and FCA registration number and is using multiple email addresses and phone numbers.
DeVere & Partners UK Limited is an unauthorised and unregulated company targeting UK consumers. It has no association with the legitimate deVere and Partners (UK) Limited.
Nigel Green, deVere Group's chief executive, said potential investors had been visited by the fraudsters and persuaded to invest in counterfeit investments. Some even attempted to impersonate existing financial advisers."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/ar ... risk-funds.html

Is this de Vere just one organisation, or a collective of some sort?  This shows EU regulation for the farce that it is.

Bit of digging on Google and I found the journalist that is also their spokesman. How odd is that?

http://www.iexpats.com/authors/

Who owns this expat site? Anyone know?

Site registered to Domains By Proxy, LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=iexpats.com

iExpats
Suite 36, 88-90 Hatton Garden
London, Farringdon
EC1N 8PG
UK
http://www.iexpats.com/contact-us/

Contact address is a virtual address: http://www.westone-business.co.uk/holborn-ec1 ... th-free-7-p.asp

Interesting, why would a kosher site hide its true identity?

What is the connection between this apparently " independent " financial site for expats, Mr Prior ( according to the Daily Mail, a spokesman for de Vere )  and de Vere?

There do seem to be few articles recommending QROPS in Malta on that iExpats site. I wonder why?

This out fit left a message on my phone and sent me an email about a job, i am always sceptical when a company offers in the first year 70k. 70K my [***], believe me when i say i do not have the type of CV to warrent those types of job offerings, so i knew it was Bull***t.

More publicity on the BBC: http://www.youtube.com/user/deveregroupchannel

You've got to hand it to them. They're doing a great job, Eight BBC interviews in the past six months.

At this rate, Devere is going to become the go-to company for tax/financial advice in the UK.