Authorised, but in an insolvency process
This firm is under the control of insolvency practitioners and may have stopped taking on new business. If you are or were a customer, deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm.
- No FCA actions
- Company: in liquidation
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
What the FCA says
ATTENTION - Firm in an insolvency process
This firm is in an insolvency process. It is under the control of the appointed insolvency office holder(s) and may have stopped taking on new business. It has to continue to meet our standards in line with its regulatory status, including when dealing with its customers. If you are/were a customer check how this affects you with the firm or the appointed insolvency office holder(s).
Website, phone number and address
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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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
c/o Andrew Charters, Christine Mary Laverty and Nicholas Nicholson, each of Grant Thornton UK LLP, 4 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB, United Kingdom
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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 phone numbers (2)
- 020 4584 1005
- 07398 334689
Fake email addresses (1)
- info@greatinvest.net
Fake websites (3)
- greatinvest.net
- trade.greatinvest.xyz
- user.greatinvest.xyz
The 2 FCA warnings these came from
- Great Point Invest 10 May 2023
- GreatInvest 17 November 2022
Scammers change these details often. Always check the live FCA warning.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- In an insolvency processMoney the firm held is returned through the appointed office holders, which takes time and can fall short. The FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Ombudsman can still look at a complaint.
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- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
- Managing an unauthorised AIF
- Managing investments
Limits on the record
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Restriction on onboarding new customers and Assets restriction
1. The Firm must cease, except with the Authority's prior written consent, onboarding new customers or taking additional subscriptions from existing customers. For the avoidance of doubt, this Requirement does not prevent the Firm from continuing to service existing customers. 2. The Firm has agreed restrictions on dealing with its assets so that it is able to support an orderly wind down.
- This firm may handle your money in passing but must not hold it, so payments should go to the product provider, never to a personal account.
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
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
The clone warnings above are scammers using this firm's name, not something the firm has done.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
Concerns on the company record
- Companies House records this company in liquidation, but it is still authorised on the FCA register.
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- 08653224 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Liquidation
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 August 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Grant Thornton Uk Advisory & Tax Llp 11th Floor Landmark St Peters Square, 1 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 4PB
- Nature of business
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- Fund management activities (SIC 66300)
Key dates in its history
Great Point Investments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
14 June 2024
- FCA imposed a requirement (Restriction on onboarding new customers and Assets restriction)
FCA register
2022
17 November 2022
- FCA warned the public about a scam impersonating this firm
FCA warning list
2016
6 April 2016
- Great Point Media Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
4 September 2014
- FCA imposed a requirement (Small Authorised UK AIFM (Sub-Threshold))
FCA register
14 July 2014
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Control but not hold client money)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2013
16 August 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 21 events
- All 21 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- FCA warning: Great Point Invest fca.org.uk
- FCA warning: GreatInvest fca.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk