Carrick Wealth
Carrick Wealth Overview
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Carrick Wealth has 2.6 star rating based on 3 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.
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Pros: Smooth talk.
Cons: Craig lied to me and i was given bad advice.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Avoid Carrick at all costs".
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Carrick Wealth has 2.6 star rating based on 3 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Smooth talk.
Cons: Craig lied to me and i was given bad advice.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Avoid Carrick at all costs".
Review authors value the most Website and Privacy and Data Security. Consumers are not pleased with Reliability and Customer service. The price level of this organization is medium according to consumer reviews.
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Verified Reviewer | Port Louis, Port LouisForced to close account due to dishonesty
- Smooth talk
- Craig lied to me and i was given bad advice
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Avoid Carrick at all costs
Carrick Wealth denying claims of illegal advice and being under investigation
I have previously posted about my issues and dealings with Carrick Wealth/ Carrick capital. I have dealt with Mr Fannin and Craig Featherby over a year ago and Carrick continue to deny claims in an attempt to protect themselves.
I personally met with Mike Fannin on a number of times in Cape Town and also in London in the UK, he gave me advice without being regulated, My friend Karl meet with Craig Featherby in Cape Town also and had regular email contact with him which he is now going to post as we and not being called liars over something that actually occurred.
Carrick claim they were licensed in August 2014 please see the dates of the files attached one from the FSB and other is an Email from Mike Fannin himself.
I have also contacted Carrick legal like requested to do so on another post and they have yet to reply.
Harassment of clients
Mike Fannin the Sales Director of Carrick Wealth and boyfriend of local radio KFM.ZA presenter Liezel Van Der Westhuizen is arrested for the second time this year for witness intimidation.
Mike Fannin has been arrested this year previously for criminal damage to a clients car and now arrested for harassment and stalking clients who have court orders against him.
These people at Carrick Wealth condole this behaviour and the CEO Craig Featherby has done nothing to stop this behaviour, Craig Featherby encourages this behaviour in an attempt to pressure clients into handing over money.
Carrick Wealth are not a company to deal with and not to be trusted, the following members of the management team all have previous criminal records, Brett Taylor, Mike Fannin, Mike Potts, and Kieron McRae.
Carrick Wealth and the Belverdere scandal
I used to work with the CEO of Carrick Wealth Craig Featherby and I can confirm that him and Cobus Kellermann had regular meetings and discussions, Craig and Cobus are indeed close friends and have in the past being involved in a number of business matters together.
Craig Featherby used to attend functions with Cobus Kellermann so It is not surprising that he came to light in the Belverdere Scandal. I am sure Craig Featherby has taken peoples money and invested it himself personally into the Belverdere platform.
The information I have about this I am happy to disclose to any reporter and provide documentation to back these claims up.
Carrick Visa lies
I started working for Carrick financial services back in september 2014 and was promised that my Visa application would be all sorted, I have recently had to leave my job as they never helped arrange a Visa and I have been working illegally.
I am now extremely disappointed and feel as if I was just lied to just to try and help them boost numbers in the offices, I now have the problems of losing my apartment and technically being homeless due to these liars and will have to move back to the UK.
I would also like to take the time to thank these total idiots with no respect for anyone, so thank you Craig Featherby, Brett Taylor, Kieron Mcrae, and Mike Potts for making me part of your total scam projectI hope the police catch up with you all when they find out what you are really unto behind closed doors.
Review from Johannesburg, Gauteng
I have worked for this bunch of cowboys and now left as I couldn't bare it no longer.
Well when I first joined them I was promised excellent commission rates and a great work place.......
This is all a big fat lie as I never seen any money as they didn't have any clients and all that really went on is everyone of the sales team were more bothered about partying and sleeping with each.
None of the management really want to work either as they seemed more occupied with other matters that seemed very corrupt... This all said it left me no option but to leave and my message to anyone considering these crooks just stay clear and save yourself the hassle and hardship.
Carrick owners leaving to join other companies
I have also had the experience of working for Carrick and it was very pleasant at all and it really dragged my mood down as the staff they have working for them are inexperienced and the vast majority don't have any financial background and some were just checkout assistant at Pick and Pay, this started to concern myself and then the alarm bells started to ring when the owner of Carrick Craig Featherby and also Mike Fannin have been attending other job interviews at other financial service companies in South Africa so this got me concerned and I decided to leave as this is a tell tale sign of a company going under in my eyes.
I also didn't get along with Sam Bowen who was constantly snapping at members of staff for no real reasons.
Carrick Ex employee
I have recently left Carrick Financial Services after working for them for a few months, the reasons behind leaving is that the management is extremely poor and a lack of direction and give no help to the staff let alone the clients (no clients really it is all lies and everyone is struggling to get by). I would never work in such conditions as this again and hope other people don't make the silly mistakes like I did, I know of other guys and girls who work at Carrick Financial Services are also about to leave or going through the process of leaving due to the same reasons as mine.
I am now happy I have left and can actually do the job I love and been able to provide financial advice to clients and not lying to them about how many clients i don't have to attempt to get a deal.
I am sure that now I have posted on here the management at Carrick will be sending me threatening emails and phone calls etc.
Carrick Wealth harassment
I have recently been contacted by a number of different members from Carrick Financial Services attempting to get me to do some sort of business with themselves. I have done my research into this company and nothing seems to fit right they seem very unprofessional and the people I have spoken to do not seem even qualified to watch my children for even a hour let alone my savings.
I have lived in South Africa all my life and yet have never came across scams like this other than people from the Cape Flats trying to mug you at an ATM. The guys on the phone said the didn't get any of my money but when I pressed them about how they made money they explained that they work on a commission basis that does not make sense to me!!
The guy then slipped up and told me what fees he would then take, I honestly find this company extremely unprofessional and inadequate to be trusted with peoples money. If Nazeer Essop contacts me again I will see red!!!!!!
Carrick Wealth lies and attempting to hide the truth
I was one of the people involved in the Carrick scam when Mr Fannin meet in the UK that Mr Featherby helped arrange, once I noticed I was being scammed I contacted the FCA and this is the response;
Dear ................,
Thank you for your recent email to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regarding the companies Carrick-Wealth and Carrick-Capital.
As you are already aware, the FCA regulates most financial services in the United Kingdom. To protect consumers, we have a public financial services register which is a public record of all the firms and individuals that we regulate. Having searched our register, I can confirm that neither Carrick-Wealth nor Carrick-Capital are regulated and authorised by the FCA. I have included a link to the register should you wish to check this:
www.fsa.gov.uk/register/home.do
We suggest exercising caution as we are aware that there has been an incredible increase in scams and swindles and many have lost money, as a result of fraud. Therefore, I have attached a link to a webpage giving further details about scams and swindles the FCA is aware of. Our website also has hints and tips to help you protect yourself and stay safe.
www.fca.org.uk/consumers/scams
I note that you have advised that the companies are primarily based in South Africa. As such, we advise contacting the relevant financial regulator in South Africa to establish if they are regulated to carry out business there.
I trust my response has clarified that Carrick-Wealth and Carrick-Capital are not regulated by the FCA to carry out business in the United Kingdom.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Yours Sincerely,
Disgusting garbage
I am writing as a service provider who began working with Craig, Brett and many of the other Carrick guys when they started in Financial Services in South Africa in late 2007. Nobody worked closer than I to Craig from outside his company so I had a very close proximity to all of the sales practices, his business ethics and his influence on the less experienced members of his team.
To my knowledge and right up until Craig started Carrick in August, he'd not one single entry of complaint on this ridiculous website and certainly in my five years of working with him, I never had ONE client complaint directed to me personally. So, in May he leaves and soon after he starts up his own venture and suddenly the message boards are full of filth and lies which are all obviously posted by *** and charlatans either employed or associated with the disgraceful joke of a company he's left behind. To any prospective client of Carrick....don't believe any of the absolute nonsense in this website. Craig remains one of the most principled and up standing pillars within the South African IFA industry and any client of Carrick I have no doubt will be looked after like absolute no other.
To the trolls filling these message boards with lies and filth, your days are so obviously numbered. I pity you.
Carrick Wealth - Fake bloggers
I would like to submit my comments regarding the damaging emails on this site regarding Craig Featherby, Mike Fannin and Brett Taylor - Carrick Wealth.
Having worked closely with these gentleman for 4 years with my former employer. I'm disgusted to read all these fake blogs all of which couldn't be any further from the truth.
I couldn't have asked for a better regional manager than Craig Featherby. Always supportive, available and knowledgeable on all matters relating to financial planning in Africa. A qualified accountant by trade, an exceptional sales person and manager, and above all a man I respect within a tainted industy. I mention tainted because it is our former employer that resorts to dirty, underhand tactis. Actions of a playground in an industry responsible for managing people's money.
It's shameful to think in this day and age a man cannot leave one company, to develop his own business and ideas, create further opportunities for people and develop this industry. What ever happened to personal wishes and choices. His credibility is now being questioned by completely fake blogs by anonymous people (former employer) because they do not like healthy competition. In my opinion competition creates better performance, better products, services and ultimately improves the lives of the clients we aim to assist
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I have also worked with Brett Taylor, a harmless gentleman. One such blogger called him a recovering alcoholic and drug abuser which is absolutely disgusting. I have personally known Brett for a long time and have never known him to be other than an upstanding, rational thinking professional. Its deplorable to falsely accuse anybody like this and I'd ask these anonymous bloggers to come out of the woodwork and identify themselves. There's no chance they ever will because they're too weak and pathetic.
I have also worked with Mike Fannin and there's a reason why he has been appointed as a senior director within Carrick Wealth. A knowledgeable individual and credible person.
For any prospective client reading this blog. I am a former colleague of these gentlemen, I also left my former employer and experienced similar problems, and at no point should any of these negative blogs put you off working with Carrick Wealth.
They're a regulated business, they have a compliance procedure, they do not receive any client cash direct, and recommend from the same top tier blue chip financial institutions that we all recommend.
Ignore the slurs ... they only serve to cheapen our industry and ruin it for all involved.
I am in Shock
To all reading this absolute and utter garbage.
To my understanding Carrick-Wealth operates in South Africa? With this said why are these complaints being posted on an American based website? The answer is obvious is it not? The poster of this farce is merely trying to exploit a new brand that has stated had not even started trading when this "incident" occurred.
Why was this comment placed in a forum outside of South African regulatory control with regards to defamation and accusation? Is it not clear to all the readers that this is a blatant and obscene attempt to stem an otherwise reputable company that acts within fit and proper regulation. The reason that you posted this complaint is owing to the fact that you knew Pissed Off Consumer is merely a conduit for complaints by disgruntled competition, ex employees and in VERY rare cases ACTUAL clients. Which one are you??
Unless you are a complete and utter fool and wired money into an advisor's bank account to invest (and then you deserve to loose everything) ,you have absolutely no base for complaint. If you have a genuine complaint that is valid, the FSB would not have granted a licence to Carrick which last I checked was still there.
This entire post makes me sick in the fact that you are actively trying to ruin the reputation of one of the greatest and most genuine men I have ever met in both Craig Featherby and Brett Taylor.
If anyone reads this and has any doubt, do your own research and ask yourself ONE question: Why is a man that has been in financial services for the past decade and had never had a single complaint registered against him suddenly hit the spotlight after spending millions to construct his own company. Here is a hint: Competition is legal and take that how you want to.
Ironic the website you posted on has the name it has because this just seems to be the wining of a man who is pissed off that he will never have the stature of respect of the men he is accusing.
Have a long look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is the message you want to be remembered for because this is now your legacy.
Good luck sleeping at night
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So this is the comment that comes up from the link so once again these anonymous and completely baseless accusations are trying to defame a very reputable company and its directors ,surely anyone can see through this shameless dirtying tactic....
This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content.
Sorry about that.
What more can you say when this link shows what these people are really like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOQEMq0iko This is Mike Fannin the Sales Director of Carrick carrying out criminal damage.