Douglas Baillie & The Pension Specialist Claims
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If you’ve taken financial advice from Douglas Baillie or their sister company The Pension Specialists, the bottom line is that they are No-longer authorised by the FCA, and it may be a good time to get your advice checked by a professional to make sure you haven’t been mis-sold, or if you have, to find out whether you can make a claim or not.
The FCA is pretty clear on the matter: “This is a firm that can no longer provide regulated products and services, but was previously authorised by the PRA and/or FCA”.
Can you make a Douglas Baillie SIPP claim?
Douglas Baillie is known to have mis-sold SIPP pensions and investments multiple times, often not taking people’s risk tolerance into account before recommending high-risk investments.
If you:
- Transferred your pension to a SIPP
- Made high-risk investments
- Aren’t earning over £100k per year
- Aren’t a Sophisticated Investor
Then you may have been mis-sold, and you could be able to make a claim for negligent SIPP advice.
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When you get let down by someone you thought you could trust, it can leave its mark on you, emotionally and physically.
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Mis-sold SIPP pension claims
We know that Douglas Baillie suspended the operation of their pension switching business – The Pension Specialists operating from www.thepensionspecialists.co.uk – back in October 2013 following concerns raised by the Financial Conduct Authority.
In short, the FCA was concerned that the firm was not delving deep enough into the financial circumstances of it’s clients before making recommendations – a HUGE part of pension advice in order to ensure that the client is placed in suitable pension schemes and invests that are affordable and carry an appropriate level of risk for the client.
By May 2016, Douglas Baillie Limited had called for a meeting of the creditors, and just a couple of weeks later appointed liquidators to commence the winding up of the business and bring everything to a full stop.
Douglas Baillie timeline
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Company founded
1998
Despite having a history dating back to 1998, it didnt stop Douglas Ballie mis-selling later.
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Ombudsman complaints
2016
In total, 6 complaints were upheld against Douglas Baillie in 2016, all of which were about SIPP pensions advice, and high-risk, unregulated investments.
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Liquidation
2016
May 2016 saw insolvency proceedings beginning, resulting in Douglas Baillie entering into Liquidation.
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In default
2017
The FSCS announces that Douglas Baillie is in default, and it will consider claims against the advice and actions of the firm.
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Sophisticated investor
Do you have a wealth of knowledge and experience in investing?
High net-worth earner
Do you earn in excess of £100,000 per annum?
High net-worth investor
Or do you own £250,000 worth of investable assets?
Do you know how people complained about mis-sold investments and pensions in the last year?
A lot. Over twenty thousand complaints were made about mis-sold pensions and investments in 2020/21, a figure which had doubled since the year before.. It’s no secret how serious this problem is, and it just seems to keep getting worse.
Have you been a victim of financial mis-selling?
Reaching out for help is never easy,
especially if you’ve been misled in the past.
But getting in touch with us won’t commit you to anything. We want to toss you a lifeboat and guide you through the choppy waters of the financial ocean, not leave you struggling to stay afloat. Our experts are here to offer advice and support on financial claims. We know what we’re doing and you can trust that if you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
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Spencer Churchill Claims Advice will:
- Speak to you in plain English
- Provide you with a dedicated claims specialist
- Pay attention to the small details of your case
- Keep you up to date with the status of your claim
- Make sure you understand our charges
- Do absolutely everything we can to win your claim
How does our claims process work?
With millions of mis-sold pensions reported, it’s worth finding out if you can get your money back. Here’s how our simple process works:
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