Mark Kirkham

Are Thai economic police at last catching up with foreign financial advisors who have been defrauding the country’s ex-pat populations for decades? The answer to that is no. Why should we expect them to? But good news at least to see the arrest of Briton Mark Kirkham at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi international airport accused now of […]

BUT IF YOU’VE LOST YOUR LIFE SAVINGS THIS MAY NOT CONSOLE YOU. Wood The personal financial guru of the Bangkok Post has been indicted by the Thai Securities Exchange Commission along with eight other ‘financial advisors’  for operating securities businesses without licences. Andrew Wood, who was afforded a regular financial column in the Bangkok Post’s […]

BUT ONLY IF YOU READ THIS! Since being put on Thailand’s Security Exchange Investor Alert List, Platinum Financial Services have been flooding the internet with Twitter messages, and mass emailing, to attract, in particular, British citizens to transfer their pensions offshore where of course PFS would look after them. Last month started a QROPS site […]

CHARTS SHOW RECKLESS ABANDON -They cold call you at your office or home and they give the impression they are the ‘bees knees’ in the financial business and will even warn you against rogue traders.  But Bangkok’s ‘Independent Financial Advisors’ are giving international finance, well, a bad name, and expats – and it is expats […]