Early Signs Advisers Miss
How to spot when something that looks like a nuisance is becoming something more 📞 An adviser rang me recently about a man who had been writing to her client ...
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🚨 **The warning signs were not absent. They were missed, minimised, or not acted on.*
The Southport Inquiry Report was published yesterday. I’ve read it. What it describes is not primarily a failure of intelligence gathering. It is a failure of ownership, process, and information ...
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When Something Doesn’t Feel Right
Most situations begin subtly. Why is hesitation dangerous? The people I work with don’t ignore risk because they’re careless. They ignore it because the moment it appears, it doesn’t look ...
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He shot a President. The warning signs were there for months.
What a Threat Assessment Actually Is: A Guide for Family Office Advisers 📍 On the 30th of March 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton ...
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Company directors details exposed
Most people think risk comes from hackers breaking in. It doesn’t. It comes from your data already being out there — in systems you don’t control. This week, Companies House ...
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⚠️ Your Client Isn’t the Target. Their Family Is
🕗 It was twenty past eight on a Tuesday morning in Paris. Pierre Noizat, CEO of French cryptocurrency platform Paymium, was going about his day. Elsewhere in the city, his ...
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📡 If Mossad Could Map a Supreme Leader’s Movements Through Hacked Traffic Cameras, What Could Someone Do With Access to You?
A precision strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at his compound in Tehran. It was one of the most significant targeted killings in modern history — and it ...
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Understanding the Fixated Individual and the Online Harassment Threat
You’ve blocked them three times. They’ve created new accounts. The messages are getting longer, more personal, more insistent. You’ve reported them to the platform, and nothing has changed. Somewhere at ...
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🔎 The Hidden Cost of Visibility in Women’s Football
⚽ Women’s football in England has never been more visible. That visibility is deserved. It reflects the quality of the players and the game’s progress. But visibility changes the risk ...
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🔎 Fixation — When Attention Turns Dangerous
The difference between someone who’s persistent and someone who’s dangerous The letters arrived at the family home. Handwritten. Addressed to the children. The client, a prominent US businesswoman, had previously ...
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🧭🧠🛡️ Situational Awareness, Intuition and Everyday Risk
🎯 Reducing risk through calm attention and early choice Situational awareness is often spoken about as if it’s instinctive — something you either have or you don’t. That’s a comforting ...
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🎯 Executive Targeting: What Advisors Need to Notice Early
⚠️ Why this matters Most serious harm to senior individuals does not begin with an attack. It begins with small, observable changes that are easy to dismiss until it is ...
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