patrickmoran
New Member
Firstly, in respect of Davys, the German Bond was available through brokers who wished to use the Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) wrapper. The SIPP is a self invested route and Davys never approved or endorsed the investment they would merely have facilitated investors who wished to use their platform. This was the same for all Pensioneer Trustees who facilitated their clients to invest in such investments.
In respect of your other question. I sometimes ask myself the same question. However, I would point out that I am only aware of two matters. The first Glas Energy, where a rogue EPC contractor sought to embezzle investor funds and the second Mr. Rory McMullan who sought to double mortgage and take investor funds when at Aegis. In fact it is well documented by both the Administrators and the investors that had I not brought his misdeeds to their attention he would have walked away with all their money. In fact Mr. McMullan sought to offer me £1.5M in hush money and I have this in a recording. I would point out that in the intervening period I had many successes and I was getting back on my feet. I would also like to point out that despite McMullan's efforts to Diligence me I thought it best to advise the appropriate authorities, advisors and investors of what had been done. I did this as I (and you as a previous Glas investor) had been subject to someone attempting to do something similar in Glas and I wished to protect the investors. Due to my efforts and the confidence I have from the investors I was asked to become a member of the Creditors Committee. I will admit that having something similar happen again is not a pleasant experience. However, in light of my previous experiences I did ensure that safeguards were in place such as Security Trustees and the fact that the bond was listed. I believe these measures ensured that the investor funds were not dissipated without recource to the investors. At present due to my efforts a number of investors have got their money back and I hope many more will to follow. The difference this time is that I have the full support of the investors and they have taken my advice on the actions to take. I cannot go into a more fuller explaination as a lot of this is currently before the Courts and McMullan is being pursued by the Administrators and a number of investors personally for fraud. What I can say is if you are willing to identify yourself I can give you an explanation personal to you and the facts surrounding your investment. As I have said I am available to meet with your advisors and provide documentary evidence of how your investment went wrong. But I would like to know who sold you the investment as I was never involved in any sales process. Were you sold this by a broker or referred by a third party. When both investments were offered they were good investments based on sound and appropriate due diligence, I believe that through the greed of some of the parties involved these investments were turned bad. I have always believed that you should do all in your power to ensure investors get their money's bey back if an investment fails. This does not always happen. I would point out that many investments fail even good ones, and as we have seen even investments which were offered by banks and large institutions failed. All I can say is that as any profit or fee I was to receive on any investment I am or was involved in comes from the profit at the end, in the event of an investment failing I too suffer a loss along with the investors. None of these investments failures have lead to my enrichment. It is regrettable that any investor lost money and in hindsight perhaps some investors were not suitable for such an investment, but as usual their brokers/introducers or they themselves thought otherwise.
In respect of your other question. I sometimes ask myself the same question. However, I would point out that I am only aware of two matters. The first Glas Energy, where a rogue EPC contractor sought to embezzle investor funds and the second Mr. Rory McMullan who sought to double mortgage and take investor funds when at Aegis. In fact it is well documented by both the Administrators and the investors that had I not brought his misdeeds to their attention he would have walked away with all their money. In fact Mr. McMullan sought to offer me £1.5M in hush money and I have this in a recording. I would point out that in the intervening period I had many successes and I was getting back on my feet. I would also like to point out that despite McMullan's efforts to Diligence me I thought it best to advise the appropriate authorities, advisors and investors of what had been done. I did this as I (and you as a previous Glas investor) had been subject to someone attempting to do something similar in Glas and I wished to protect the investors. Due to my efforts and the confidence I have from the investors I was asked to become a member of the Creditors Committee. I will admit that having something similar happen again is not a pleasant experience. However, in light of my previous experiences I did ensure that safeguards were in place such as Security Trustees and the fact that the bond was listed. I believe these measures ensured that the investor funds were not dissipated without recource to the investors. At present due to my efforts a number of investors have got their money back and I hope many more will to follow. The difference this time is that I have the full support of the investors and they have taken my advice on the actions to take. I cannot go into a more fuller explaination as a lot of this is currently before the Courts and McMullan is being pursued by the Administrators and a number of investors personally for fraud. What I can say is if you are willing to identify yourself I can give you an explanation personal to you and the facts surrounding your investment. As I have said I am available to meet with your advisors and provide documentary evidence of how your investment went wrong. But I would like to know who sold you the investment as I was never involved in any sales process. Were you sold this by a broker or referred by a third party. When both investments were offered they were good investments based on sound and appropriate due diligence, I believe that through the greed of some of the parties involved these investments were turned bad. I have always believed that you should do all in your power to ensure investors get their money's bey back if an investment fails. This does not always happen. I would point out that many investments fail even good ones, and as we have seen even investments which were offered by banks and large institutions failed. All I can say is that as any profit or fee I was to receive on any investment I am or was involved in comes from the profit at the end, in the event of an investment failing I too suffer a loss along with the investors. None of these investments failures have lead to my enrichment. It is regrettable that any investor lost money and in hindsight perhaps some investors were not suitable for such an investment, but as usual their brokers/introducers or they themselves thought otherwise.