Four financial advice firms and a DFM fall into FSCS in March

One 'Ponzi scheme'

Tom Ellis
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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) declared three financial advice firms and a discretionary fund manager in default in March.

The four financial advice firms to be declared in default in March were Glasgow-based One Wealth Management, Devonshire Asset Management, Kent-based Huntsman Hawkes and Aberdeen-based Midas Financial Solutions. Professional Adviser has already reported on Midas Financial Solutions being declared default in March; its financial services director Alistair Greig was found guilty of conning investors out of £13m on 12 March 2020.  The High Court in Edinburgh heard investors lost their "life savings" and even though the sentence was deferred, the judge warned: "There is likely to be very l...

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