‘THE EXPAT COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP TO RID THE COUNTRY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS’ Nice to see today a letter in the Bangkok Post from Tommy Weapon, which is a scarcely veiled reference to the two chumps Drew Noyes, and Brian Goudie aka Goldie. I am very cautiously optimistic that the powers that be are working […]
THIS IS WHAT YOUR IFA WAS TOLD! With thanks to COVERFOTO /Bennett Independent Financial advisers selling the LM Managed Performance Fund were sent glowing references to how well the fund was doing when it was just months away from collapse. Peter Drake the LM supremo sent them press cuttings showing how people were being paid […]
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 London 360. Readers might at this stage wonder what language is spoken in the world of finance. I think its call evasion, others […]
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 to get a three months visa out of Burma (Myanmar). The decision was announced by the Korean President of the Miss Asia Pacific Super […]
Tragedy on paradise island Twenty-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 sight of the legendary ‘Beach’ made famous by the film starring Leonardo di Caprio. Jack, known as, Jay, who is reported to have come […]
“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 whistle-blower financial man Martyn Terpilowski – then based in Tokyo. The fund managers attitude to the well being of […]
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 have also begun the same process. A report today in the South China Morning Post by Benjamin Robertson, who has also linked up to ‘whistleblower’ […]
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 doing so in Thailand must go to the Bangkok Post’s financial advice columnist Andrew Wood who has […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST ADMITS ‘FRUSTRATION’ WITH THAI LEGAL SYSTEM Samui Provincial Court today accepted a charge from fake lawyer Brian Goudie claiming that British journalist Andrew Drummond had committed libel under the Computer Crime Act by publishing a photo-shopped picture of him in a gay parade. Andrew Drummond will have to attend Samui Court on October […]
AT WHAT PRICE? DRUGGIES HEAD FOR KOH PHANGAN FOR MIRACLE CURE Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary Picture – Coconuts – Woolsey with Trink I was slightly intrigued by the interview by young Canadian ‘video journalist’ Barbara Woolsey on ‘Coconuts’ of the Bangkok Post’s legendary former entertainment columnist Bernard Trink that I decided to dig a little […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.