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By Tony Hetherington, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 7-- QUESTION: I am sending you a mailshot I received from a share sales company called Hoffman Philips. I was about to bin it, but perhaps a warning in your column could save some gullible soul from grief.

--S. K. C.

ANSWER: What a mealy-mouthed bunch of bureaucrats we have at the Financial Services Authority. All too often they prove as good at investor protection as King Herod would be at running a creche.

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