A web of deceit: How one IFA's trickery led to his downfall

A web of deceit: How one IFA's trickery led to his downfall

Laura Miller
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Going behind the back of his firm's principal, and its network, building a web of companies to do his bidding and mis-using risk questionnaires to persuade unwitting investors to part with their money - how one IFA spun a web of deceit before losing it all.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Craig Cameron, director of London IFA Burlington Associates, £350,000 and banned him from practising for mis-selling high risk unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS). He was found by the regulator to lack honesty and integrity - and the FCA's final notice reveals the extent of Cameron's activities...

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