{"id":273650,"date":"2025-06-04T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/dont-make-me-google-the-barefoot-investor\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:08:41","slug":"dont-make-me-google-the-barefoot-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=273650","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Make Me Google \u2014 The Barefoot Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Hi Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em><br \/>I was recently contacted by an investment company called Caprion Group, which operates in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Caprion\u2019s account manager is encouraging me to invest $20,000, claiming they only risk 1% per trade and that most trades are profitable. I\u2019m unsure whether this is legitimate or wise. I\u2019m a retired woman living on a government pension, with HESTA as my super fund. With recent market volatility, my super has dropped significantly. On top of that, I\u2019ve just discovered HESTA has frozen all transactions until early June, with no clear explanation.\u00a0 Should I leave my super where it is, and can you tell me if Caprion Group is trustworthy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Jenny<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi Jenny,<\/p>\n<p>Your question reminds me of a discussion I had with my son just this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHurry up! We\u2019ve got to go to your game. Why don\u2019t you have your footy guernsey on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t find it\u201d, he whined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you looked in your cupboard?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah \u2026\u201d, he said unconvincingly.<\/p>\n<p>I gave him my \u2018dad\u2019 stare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh \u2026 kay, I\u2019ll have another look\u201d, he humpfed.<\/p>\n<p>A minute later he came back with it on.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to your question.<\/p>\n<p>First, I googled \u201cCaprion Group + Scam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The very first listing was the ASIC MoneySmart website under their \u2018investment scam alert\u2019 list.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their advice? \u201cIf it\u2019s on the list, don\u2019t take the risk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jenny, Caprion was on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I googled \u201cHESTA frozen transactions\u201d, and\u00a0<em>hundreds<\/em>\u00a0of articles appeared.<\/p>\n<p>The first article read: \u201cMembers of HESTA will be unable to access most services until June, as the superannuation fund undertakes a planned outage to change its administration provider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenny, as a member of HESTA there\u2019s no need to worry (you\u2019ve only lost access for a while, not your money.) However, if I were the CEO of HESTA, I\u2019d be\u00a0<em>very\u00a0<\/em>worried. The fact that one of the biggest super funds in the country could screw this up so badly is totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Scott<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Scott, I was recently contacted by an investment company called Caprion Group, which operates in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Caprion\u2019s account manager is encouraging me to invest $20,000, claiming they only risk 1% per trade and that most trades are profitable. I\u2019m unsure whether this is legitimate or wise. 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