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What happens when you follow the investment rabbit down the internet hole?

Laura Miller
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What happens when you follow the investment rabbit down the internet hole? You get a very strange tale, and a warning to tell click-happy clients in search of the next best thing in investment/tax planning/pension products...

There's a phrase repeated in YouTube's comment sections when you find yourself watching a video of six people squeezing a boil the size of a goose egg behind their uncle's ear - "I'm in that weird part of YouTube again". I have found myself in a similar situation with an investment website some advisers alerted me to called Ledger & Simmons. For those of you short on time, the abridged version is: 1) Ledger & Simmons may be a figment of our collective imagination 2) Ditto its ‘managing' or 'senior' partner Toby Ledger 3) Ledger is or has been a male model of gold ties, when n...

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