Oberon Investments Limited
Reference number: 124885
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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
6 Duke Street St James's, 2nd Floor, London, SW1Y 6BN, United Kingdom
- Oberon Capital
- Oberon Private Ventures
Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- 02198303
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 November 1987 (38 years old)
- Registered office
- 6 Duke Street St. James's, 2nd Floor, London, SW1Y 6BN, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
- Security and commodity contracts dealing activities (SIC 66120)
Current directors and secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Philip Mcgivern | Director | Jul 1973 | 9 Jan 2018 |
| Michael John Cuthbert | Director | Sep 1958 | 1 Dec 2024 |
| Gemma Claire Godfrey | Director | Sep 1983 | 1 Dec 2024 |
| Alexander Robert Hambro (Hon) | Director | Jan 1962 | 1 Dec 2024 |
| Mark Scott Ibbotson | Director | May 1967 | 1 Dec 2024 |
| Marcia Coelho Manarin | Director | Jan 1971 | 14 Jan 2025 |
| Adam Herringer | Director | Mar 1981 | 7 Feb 2025 |
| John Geoffrey Beaumont | Secretary | Not published | 1 Dec 2024 |
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 (1)
- support@oberonsys.com
Fake websites (1)
- oberonsys.com
The FCA warning these came from
- oberonsys.com 16 March 2026
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 · Run or oversee funds FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Give regulated advice FSCS may applyA claim for unsuitable advice is itself FSCS-protected, up to the limit that applies to the product you were advised on.
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- Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
- Advising on P2P agreements
- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
- Causing dematerialised instructions to be sent
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Dealing in investments as principal
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
- Managing an unauthorised AIF
- Managing investments
- Safeguarding and administration of assets (without arranging)
- Sending dematerialised instructions
Limits on what they may do
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Restriction on new wealth management clients, and assets restrictions
1. The Firm, must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority on board any new wealth management clients. 2. The Firm, must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, initiate or complete any new acquisitions, mergers, or purchases of businesses or client books. 3. The Firm, must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, onboard, certify, or engage any new Investment Managers, whether directly or through associated entities. 4. The Firm must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, in any way dispose of, withdraw, transfer, deal with or diminish the value of any of its own assets (whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere), whether held by the Firm as at the date of the imposition of the Requirements or acquired thereafter. 5. The Firm may continue dealing with or disposing of any of its own assets in the ordinary and proper course of business provided that the dealing or disposal is of a reoccurring nature that has previously been incurred (such as rent, insurance) or any new sum or value of such dealings or disposals, whether as a single transaction or a combination of related transactions, does not exceed £15,000. 6. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) above, the following would be in the ordinary and proper course of business: a. Any fees incurred or paid in exchange for legal or professional advisory services provided to the Firm; or b. Any salaries of the Firm’s staff, including to its directors, contractors, or any other employees, where such salaries have been agreed prior to the imposition of the Requirements; c. Any liabilities incurred prior to, but not paid by, today’s date. 7. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (6) above, the following would not be in the ordinary and proper course of business: a. The making of any distribution to the Firm’s shareholders whether by way of capital distribution or dividends; b. Subject to sub-paragraph (6)(b) above, any payment to the Firm’s shareholders, directors, officers, employees, any connected entities, or persons; c. The making of any gift or loan by the Firm to any party; or the entry into any financial reconstruction, sale of any part of the Firm (whether share or asset based) or reorganisation. 8. Sub-paragraphs (4) to (7) constitute an assets requirement within the meaning of section 55P(4)(a) of the Act.
One supervisory condition set by the FCA
These are conditions the FCA places on the firm itself, covering things like capital it must hold and what it must report. They do not change what the firm may do for you.
- Small Authorised UK AIFM (Sub-Threshold)
The total value of assets under management by the firm must not exceed the relevant threshold as set out in Article 3(2) of AIFMD (as determined under Chapter II, section I of the AIFMD level 2 regulation). In the event that the relevant threshold is breached, the firm must submit an application for authorisation as a Full-scope UK AIFM to the FCA
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 4 earlier registered names for this firm. A registered name changes when a firm rebrands, and a partnership's changes whenever its partners do.
- Barnard & Co Ltd
- Maintower Investments Ltd
- M D Barnard & Co Ltd
- M D Barnard & Company Limited
Names it no longer trades under
This firm has retired 6 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
- Barnard Marsh & Co
- Hanson Investment Management
- M D Barnard
- M D Barnard & Co
- Oberon Private Ventures
- Smythe House
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