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  Oakridge Property Investments There is a company called EWP Group that is offering investments in various unregulated high risk bond offers with a slick presenter telling potential investors about the safety of the investments. It needs to be highlighted that ANY unregulated investment has NO FSCS protection and is therefore very high risk. Any investors should be using their regulated investment options before even looking at these sort of unregulated high risk options. The companies being promoted by EWP Group appear to be Oakridge and Big Roar property bond investments. Oakridge appears to be unconnected to the US based company Oakridge Investments. There are also other UK companies with this name but the relevant UK company appears has 2 employees according to their latest accounts which raises a question as to how big they actually are. They have also only been in existence since 2023 which doesn't give a very long track record for handing money over to. Their last accounts ...

Oakridge & Big Roar Property Investments There is a company called EWP Group that is offering investments in various unregulated high risk bond offers with a slick presenter telling potential investors about the safety of the investments. It needs to be highlighted that ANY unregulated investment has NO FSCS protection and is therefore very high risk. Any investors should be using their regulated investment options before even looking at these sort of unregulated high risk options. The companies being promoted by EWP Group appear to be Oakridge and Big Roar property bond investments. EWP Group don't seem to be overly successful themselves as it appears from their accounts that they're making continual losses and are currently over £2 million in losses sitting in their balance sheet. They've also used an accounting trick to change the date of their accounts which allows them to delay publishing their details. This is an entirely legal option but is one that has been used...

 Yet another "alternative" investment platform has been shut down by the FCA. Moneda Capital was somewhat more blatant than others in that it was claiming to offer savings accounts via its Savings Hub yet the banks listed as being recipients of the funds had no knowledge of Moneda Capital using them. We'll have to wait to see what the FCA find when they investigate but the fact they have shut them down and frozen the assets of the company isn't a great sign. The Moneda Capital website is no longer available and the only message shown is the FCA investigation warning. There is no way to click off the warning to see the rest of the site. It's very worrying that there are investors on their Trustpilot review page that say they have put their life savings into Moneda's Savings Hub with one claiming to have over £300,000 placed with them. If that's the case there could be many investors out of pocket. There were warnings here about Moneda Capital but sadly on...