Guys,
Although I have officially left this forum I thought I would add a post just to ‘clean’ things up .
First of all, and once again, it is important to state that only the authorities have the regulatory power and resources to fully investigate CWM and we cannot pass any kind of judgement until their work is done. I have stated this from the very beginning and have only suggested caution and due diligence in light of information and no more. That is the ONLY conclusion for now. There is a phrase ‘there is no smoke without fire’, unfortunately, there can be ‘smoke with no fire’ sometimes.
Keeping Things Factual
Whatehat (a new poster). Please keep things factual (to protect T2W). If you worked in CWM FX (I described it and you agreed with my points) please state some factual points maybe number 1,2,3.... You also made a negative post about Mr C Droste. Please keep things factual and no emotional attacks. If you have contact with other former employees, let them post up their experiences (again with a list of points). Maybe some had positive experiences?
Belvedere & ******
Belvedere it appears has been exposed by David Marchant of Offshore alert as a Ponzi scheme. Now although he is a credible man we cannot just take one man’s (albeit credible) word and the fact that Belvedere is under investigation by Mauritius regulators to draw conclusions. Here is where ****** comes in. For those who do not know, ****** & Partners is an offshore financial advisory commission-only sales company advising on financial products to expats. (Note: They are by no means saints and seem to have a poor reputation in some quarters due to their selling often-unsuitable opaque life insurance products generating very high commissions for their sales force. They are, however, a very large multinational with billions under management.)
****** has come out publicly that Belvedere is a fraudulent organization and have added to the Offshore alert’s body of evidence also stating publicly that they helped expose Belvedere. It appears that ****** is attempting to regain millions for investors from one of Belvedere’s funds (the Kijani fund which is part of the Brighton SPC). They are publicly stating that Belvedere have committed fraud. Of course, supporters of CWM would say that Mr Marchant could be working alone and ‘crying wolf’. However, if an international company like ****** weighs in and publicly states that Belvedere have defrauded them out of at least one fund and that they are actively trying to regain money then it is significant. The argument is that it is hardly a single man making the accusation but also a very large group (******) making the accusation together with him. However, they could be wrong and I leave it up to others to pass judgement.
http://www.biznews.com/interviews/2...edere-and-old-friend-kellermann-both-of-them/
on the other hand
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/in-depth/...ministrator-says-brighton-spc-is-not-a-ponzi/
The link with CWM and Belvedere
This isn’t a conspiracy theory and neither is the link ‘tenuous’. CWM is very much part of the Belvedere group.
1 In a previous post I put up a link to CWM Securities which clearly stated that Belvedere was part of ‘our group’. CWM since took it down (following my post). (
www.cwmsecurities.com)
2 Mr AC previously worked for Belvedere according to the Wikipedia entry
3 The Brighton SPC is still on the CWM website under CWM Funds (it is managed by Belvedere). I hope CWM doesn't take it down after this post.(
http://cwmfunds.com)
4 Belvedere it appears was setting up funds named CWM for CWM.
CWM PR Releases
Perhaps CWM will release a more comprehensive PR release addressing some of the points ? (Their most recent one simply blamed former employees for conspiratorial activity and gave no answers to any of the cautionary points)
(Note to CWM PR: The recent PR release makes no logical sense. Concerted activity by former employees would have had to be international and huge. It would have included the City of London police, the FCA, David Marchant , ****** & Partners, South African authorities, various international journalists and media outlets including City AM, the Mauritius regulator, public domain facts and even the ubiquitous Mr. Google. Personally, I have had no direct contact with any one of them except, perhaps, Mr Google. Also, the other press release suggests the raid was part of an operation against boiler rooms when comments made by the police suggest it referred to their concerns regarding the guaranteed investment promoted by CWM)
Conclusions
The investigation needs to carry on by the authorities as they have the power to do this. Hopefully, there will be further announcements. We must also allow for the possibility that CWM may also have reasonable explanations for some of the issues above and not let emotion get in the way of any objective assessment. Maybe somehow CWM have been victims in some way? Or perhaps only some units of the company were at fault?
Who knows maybe senior managers at CWM may have been duped somehow by the parent company (like ****** apparently was by Belvedere) ? Maybe they didn’t have an adequate compliance function being a new company? There are many many potential explanations and we have to allow for all them as well as the very obvious ones. Only time will tell and these things often take time.