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Advisers face 500 complaints over Ucis and film investments
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by Alex Steger on Nov 12, 2012 at 07:49
Financial advisers could be hit with a hundreds of complaints over advice to invest in film schemes and unregulated collective investment schemes (Ucis), according to reports.
The Financial Times reported that nearly 500 investors were considering making a complaint against their adviser for allegedly mis-selling investments in film production companies and Ucis over the past decade.
The paper reported that unsophisticated investors had invested £2 billion of the £2.3 billion held in Ucis, and that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) estimated 114,000 out of 142,000 Ucis investors ‘may have been unlawfully promoted and/ or unsuitably recommended’ products.
Up to 3,000 firms marketed Ucis schemes, with almost four fifths breaching regulations when doing so, according to the FSA.
The FSA’s consultation on a clampdown of the sale of Ucis closes this week.
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