This can be downloaded using UKNOVA.com
DeVere are sure to figure in this programmes a MUST watch for any one dealing with ''offshore'' financial advisors.

De Vere Group, the offshore IFA, was among the promoters of the Beazley QROPS that has been struck off HMRC’s list of approved schemes.

It has not been confirmed how many de Vere clients were put into the scheme, but it is thought it could be more than 100.

Skandia International, the offshore insurer, has now revealed it has 166 cases on its books in which its portfolio bonds were used as an investment platform within the Beazley QROPS.

Advisers from...

One of the biggest exponents of shonky products the ''business partners'' of the people who sell them, at last drag themselves into the 21st century..but don't hold your breath nothing has really changed.......



Depending on your point of view, hearing the words ‘commission disclosure’ will either fill you with dread or, like us, you will see it as another step towards putting our industry on a more open, transparent and robust footing and elevate standards of professionalism....

FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS SCMP OCT 11TH 2009

Advisers get hefty commission on products sold
Stephen Vines
Oct 11, 2009

Hong Kong's small army of so-called independent financial advisers must be hoping the special administrative region will not follow Britain's Financial Services Authority, which is poised to outlaw commissions paid to advisers by fund managers and life insurers.
Instead they will have to collect fees from customers...

Back on to one of my pet subjects, ''caveat emptor''.

Anyone see this over the weekend??

/News - Hong Kong
Financial planner caught pretending to be CFP-qualified 97.04%
Aug 30, 2009, Naomi Rovnick, 535 words

Stephen Gollop, a high-profile financial adviser in Hong Kong, has been reprimanded by an industry body for using the prestigious "Certified Financial Planner" title after his name without having gained the qualification....