Financial advisory fraud looks to be extremely complex in makeup, and it can feel really overwhelming to try to understand all the nuance and how it happens. But when you break it down, you will find it’s actually not. It’s simply manipulation against a backdrop where neither party can be held legally responsible.  In this episode in the Great Fraud Fightback series, Amber talks us through a case study of how she was manipulated into parting with her savings and was essentially trapped in a Trust she had set up in Jersey via her financial advisor and Guardian Trust Company Ltd as part of a long term savings plan.

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With Dubai burgeoning as a tourist hotspot and the upcoming Expo 2020 expected to bring in over 25 million visitors, the demand for short-term rentals or holiday homes in Dubai is also expected to grow. A lucrative opportunity for those looking to benefit from good rental yields, many homeowners and investors are taking the step to convert their property into a holiday home or purchase strategically located properties for the purpose of short-term rental. 

In this episode Amber is joined by Tomas Dolezal, Founder of Elite Royal Apartments, which specialises in short-term rentals in Downtown Dubai and is one of the city’s most successful and profitable start-up companies. Tomas discusses how his niche model helped his business survive a sector that did witness a huge impact of the global Covid-19 outbreak, as well as his predictions post Expo 2020.

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Amber is joined by Con Lillis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Abacus, a financial advisory firm headquartered in Dubai to discuss how, as the lack of trust in the financial advisory industry grew, he felt it became necessary to separate client service from leadership and operation of the business.  Lillis made a deliberate decision to move himself away from a client-facing role so he could spend all of his time working on the business and developing its systems and culture, which allows for its advisors to focus solely on what they're truly good at.  In this episode he gives us insight into what he feels is his most valuable client deliverable, the leadership areas he cultivates in every area of the firm, and why supporting advisors to get what they want out of life is a cornerstone principle of his firm.

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Amber is joined by Dr Anthony Thomas from Prime Hospital in Dubai and a scientific advisor to EIAC who worked with the state department on helping to minimise the prevention of spreading COVID 19 in Dubai, and building a response team of healthcare workers. 

In this episode we discuss the origins of COVID 19, what makes COVID 19 different from every other coronavirus we know, managing the pandemic in modern time in comparison to the influenza pandemic of 1918, the public pressure on kids and masks (and whether they should get the vaccine), the future of COVID 19 as a disease, and whether the vaccinated numbers in Dubai mean we've reached "herd immunity", and more.

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Before engaging with lawyers, Amber discusses two options that can be pursued to gather information on your financial situation if you feel stuck, confined, and in-prison by your current financial investment circumstances - one of which includes ordering a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR).  In this episode of The Great Fraud Fightback series Amber shares her experience and findings of the DSAR ordered as part of her legal case against rogue financial advisors and companies.

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Amber is joined by Mazhar Farooqui, Senior Features Editor at Gulf News and one of the country’s top investigative journalist whose smashing stories and intriguing exposes have raised the bar on in-depth reporting in this part of the world.  Here he discusses the importance of resistance journalism,  the role of local media and his relentless pursuit for truth.

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Amber is joined by Sam Instone, Chairman of AES International and one of Dubai's leading and longest servicing financial advisory firms, who shares his diagnosis of an all-to common example of an investment portfolio of high commission for a rogue financial advisor and of non-experienced cautious investors being totally ill-advised.  He also shares his thoughts on personal responsibility, on the on-line DIY financial courses currently flooding the local market and what investors should be doing before they commit to any investment.

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What is the biggest sign that someone is suffering from corporate traumatic stress disorder (CTSD)?  Is it smoking or is it evidence of multi moving of employment?  Amber is joined by Dr. Marikinti a Medical Practitioner, who has the experience of corporate and corporate health or lack of health and who has studied what makes corporates healthy and what can actually affect the health in a negative way, and what lessons he has learnt or observed through his knowledge and expertise.

In this episode of Behind the Scenes, you will learn how you recognize yourself or how your working colleagues recognizes this entity – how we determine is it really a problem and if it is a problem how big is the problem within you, within your organization and then how to verify – how to see its impact on yourself and on your company.

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In the first episode in The Great Fraud Fightback series, Amber is joined by Stuart McCulloch, Executive Director at The Fry Group.  In this episode they will show you how to pick a Financial Advisor, the key areas to research, the importance of doing your own due diligence and how you can protect yourself from financial advisory fraud from the very first step of investing.

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One of the biggest personal finance concerns many people have faced over the years is dishonest advisers selling complex, high-commission financial products to unsuspecting investors that can lock them in for years.

Amber Waheed is one of them and she lost her life savings after being duped by her adviser into signing up for long-term investments she believed were low risk.

In The Great Fraud Fightback series, named of course after the book, Amber deconstructs her story of how she lost her savings to a sophisticated financial advisory fraud and fought back against the system and won a landmark court case in Dubai.  In this episode she shares the background of her case of how she met her financial Advisor and introduces the first pitfalls to be avoided.

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