{"id":73145,"date":"2025-08-16T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:10:10","slug":"he-failed-us-how-a-financial-adviser-moved-into-pension-fund-property-racked-up-rent-arrears-and-now-wont-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73145\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He failed us\u2019 \u2013 how a financial adviser moved into pension fund property, racked up rent arrears and now won\u2019t leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Martin Kelly advised clients to invest in a Co Wexford property, but according to investors he did not say he would be living there\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernard Doyle and other trustees were 'never told' financial adviser Martin Kelly would move into Highfield Cottage, Ballinamona\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/478140a1-67e2-4938-822d-cb38cd1c4adb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bernard Doyle and other trustees were &#8216;never told&#8217; financial adviser Martin Kelly would move into Highfield Cottage, Ballinamona<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Bernard Doyle went to draw down from his pension fund in 2020, he was shocked to learn there was insufficient money in the account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Doyle (73), who is now retired after nearly 40 years working in security for Bank of Ireland, invested in a property in Co Wexford on the advice of his former financial adviser, Martin Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Kelly advised clients to invest in a Co Wexford property, but according to investors he did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57015,64,63,99,186,4363,184,185,57016],"class_list":{"0":"post-73145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-amy-molloy","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-pensions","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-ulster-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}