Investment Funds Direct Limited
Reference number: 114432
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Identity
Check their details
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Verified address
Investment Funds Direct Ltd, Trimbridge House, Trim Street, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HB, United Kingdom
- M&G Wealth Platform
Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- 01610781
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 February 1982 (44 years old)
- Registered office
- 10 Fenchurch Avenue, London, United Kingdom, EC3M 5AG, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Current directors and secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Frederic Bischler | Director | Aug 1985 | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Clare Eleanor Thompson | Director | Nov 1954 | 26 Mar 2021 |
| Mariken Louise Tannemaat | Director | Nov 1971 | 12 Sep 2022 |
| M&G MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 1 Sep 2020 |
Warning
Scammers have impersonated this firm
Fraudsters have used this firm's name or details with their own contact information to appear genuine. Check whatever you were given below, and against the firm's real details above.
Fake email addresses (6)
- accounts@ifdgl.com
- adam@ifdgl.com
- admin@ifdgl.com
- richard@iifdgl.com
- support@upswingtrade.com
- support@upswingtrade.net
Fake websites (3)
- ifdgl.com
- upswingtrade.com
- upswingtrade.net
The 2 FCA warnings these came from
- ifdgl.com/ Investment Funds Direct Group Management / Investment Funds Direct Group 9 January 2024
- Upswingtrade.com / Upswingtrade.net 19 January 2022
Scammers change these details often. Always check the live FCA warning.
Activities and protection
What they can do, and how you are protected
- Hold or safeguard your money · Manage or trade investments FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
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- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
- Causing dematerialised instructions to be sent
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Establishing/operating/winding up a personal pension scheme
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
- Safeguarding and administration of assets (without arranging)
- Sending dematerialised instructions
Complaints: You can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Track record
FCA actions and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action, and no complaints recorded with the Ombudsman.
The clone warnings above are scammers using this firm's name, not something the firm has done.
Previously registered as
The FCA register holds one earlier registered name for this firm. A registered name changes when a firm rebrands, and a partnership's changes whenever its partners do.
- Stafford House Investments Limited
Names it no longer trades under
This firm has retired 2 trading names. If you were contacted under one of these, the name did belong to this firm, but check the current details above before going ahead.
Show the retired names
- Ascentric
- Fundsdirect
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