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LM - PONZI! PONZI! PONZI? - BUT AUSSIE REGULATORS DID NOTHING
WHAT WATCHDOG?Were alarm bells ringing about LM? Did the Australian regulators hear them? Were they told?Apparently yes. More revelations today in correspondence with Peter Drake and Linda Darcy at LM...
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Frustration over attempted murder of British schoolteacher
Adam PicklesThe mother of British teacher Adam Pickles who has been in a coma since being attacked in Pattaya in May 2012 has expressed frustration at the Thai legal system after a verdict on Sean...
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LM MANAGED PERFORMANCE FUND WAS FOR 'SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS ONLY'
The LM Managed Performance Fund was for 'sophisticated investors only'. This may come as a surprise to clients whose money was put in property in Australia just before the crash time in a boom and...
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BEWARE CAMBODIAN FORESTS WITH NO AIR
The Cambodian authorities appear to have concluded that Canadian Dave Walker died of a heart attack due to lack of fresh air around the country's historic Angkor Wat complex. This may be of concern to...
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THE GREEN MANGO ATTACK - AUSSIE MUM MAY COUNTER SUE
MYSTERY GIRL MUST BE BROUGHT BACK TO TESTIFYAn Australian mum whose badly beaten son has been ordered to report to Koh Samui police on what she says are trumped up misdemeanor and assault charges is...
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LM FUND CLIENT WAS ABLE TO REDEEM HIS INVESTMENT – BUT HE WAS A BANKER
KICKING THE LM CAN DOWN THE ROAD!Heather McLeishA client was able to redeem a large investment from LM but it still took two years and he had a senior position at a well known investment bank and there...
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POLICE, ARMY, ON THE TAKE FROM WOLVES OF BANGKOK - CLAIMS
FORMER PRIME MINISTER NAMEDBoiler room bosses, aka ‘The Wolves of Bangkok’, have been making widespread payments to several police departments and even an army general, it is claimed today.Investors...
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CAN YOU HELP THIS BOILER ROOM OUT? THEY’VE MADE A BAD INVESTMENT
The notorious SpartaMatrix company which has been running boiler rooms out of Manila and Bangkok is, it appears, in a spot of bother. It has been washing its cash into port facilities in Croatia...
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LAMBS OR RAMS TO THE SLAUGHTER – IT’S ALL DAMN WRONG
-LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES AGAIN - WITH BRITAIN'S C4-Certain types of documentary surface on a regular basis. One such theme is ‘Thai Brides’ which holds a special attraction for British...
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LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES – HOW LM PLAYED FOR TIME
AN EXCRUCIATING EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN LM AND A FINANCIAL ADVISERIf there can be any doubt that directors of the company and salesmen of the product were lying their heads off then the following long...
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Murders, stabbings, 'bad foreigners', and a man loose with a Taser
IT'S GOT IT ALL - KOH SAMUI'S INFAMOUS SOI GREEN MANGOIt's got it all apparently. Youngsters on their holidays have been known to spend almost every night in Soi Green Mango in perfect safety. It has...
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HOW COLUMNIST'S SEX WITH A LEPER LED TO TRIPPING OUT ON THAI HOLIDAY ISLAND
AT WHAT PRICE? DRUGGIES HEAD FOR KOH PHANGAN FOR MIRACLE CUREFlying Sporran’s Midweek DiaryPicture - Coconuts - Woolsey with TrinkI was slightly intrigued by the interview by young Canadian ‘video...
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FAKE LAWYER TO HAVE HIS DAY IN COURT OVER BOTTOMLESS PANTS PICTURE
BRITISH JOURNALIST ADMITS 'FRUSTRATION' WITH THAI LEGAL SYSTEMSamui Provincial Court today accepted a charge from fake lawyer Brian Goudie claiming that British journalist Andrew Drummond had committed...
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THREE, NO, FOUR STRIKES AND NOT OUT FOR THE BANGKOK POST'S FINANCIAL ADVISER
GOOD NEWS FOR EXPAT INVESTORS WITH IFA'S IN THAILAND. THEIR RATINGS ARE STABLE - THEY ARE STILL AS BAD AS EVER!There’s nothing like living a dream and the top spot in my nominations for people who are...
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Independent Financial Advisers - Bond Providers in LM Scandal to be sued.
Expats in Hong Kong are now suing local independent financial advisers, pension fund trustees, and life insurance companies who promoted the LM Managed Performance Fund, and some expats in Thailand...
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'WHAT CHANCE DO HONEST PEOPLE HAVE?" - HOW FUND PROVIDERS TURNED A BLIND EYE...
"THIS IS A DODGE - I SWEAR ON MY LIFE"Fund providers such as Royal Skandia and Friends Provident turned a blind eye to warnings over the dodgy LM Managed Performance Fund despite repeated emails from...
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'Legend from Llanelli' - 21-year-old Welshman with wanderlust 'took his own...
Tragedy on paradise islandTwenty-one Jack Davies the young 21-year-old Welshman described as the ‘little legend of Llanelli’ took his own life by hanging himself with a mobile phone charger within...
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OUCH - BURMA'S BEAUTY QUEEN BUSTED IN BITCHY BEAUTY PAGEANT
BUT THIS PAGEANT SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN SAID BRITAIN'S AMY WILLERTON! Burma (Myanmar’s) first ever international beauty queen has been sacked for her ‘lying’ and lack of ‘trustworthiness’ and for trying...
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ABOUT TURN? ROYAL LONDON 360 FINDS NO PROBLEM WITH LM!
But this gobbledygook of evasion or rather fundspeak says it all. Here we go again as another fund provider is tackled by whistleblowing financial adviser Martin Terpilowski - this time its Royal...
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HOW THE MEDIA UNKNOWINGLY COLLUDED WITH LM
THIS IS WHAT YOUR IFA WAS TOLD!With thanks to COVERFOTO /BennettIndependent Financial advisers selling the LM Managed Performance Fund were sent glowing references to how well the fund was doing when...
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