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FPA launches anonymous reporting service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... access the service through the association's website under 'lodge a complaint'. Each report may not lead to a formal investigation but the association will use the information to assess areas of systematic risk and concern. The site will be managed by ...

Prison sentence for finance fraudster

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... civil actions against Whet Investments, Gordon and companies associated with him. On 18 December 2009, following an investigation by ASIC, Gordon was convicted of one charge of dishonest use of position as a director and improper use of approximately ...

Trio funds to be wound up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... Trio Capital, is filing a court application to wind up six of the failed fund manager's funds following an initial investigation of the schemes. According to a letter from PPB, an application will be filed with the court this week to have six funds ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... collapses most of whom had absolutely nothing to do with the 'advice' industry under the FSRA. Increased powers of investigation may help stop these well published occurrences before the public are harmed," said Prossor. The minister for financial services ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... 78 cents, or 1.89 per cent, to $40.47. Overnight, the European Commission said it had opened a formal anti-trust investigation into Rio and BHP's proposal to share iron ore assets in Western Australia. Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals also declined, losing ...

Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker banned

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... bought VSL shares on his own account and advised four of his clients to buy VSL shares themselves. In a related investigation, Colin Hebbard, a former broker employed in Citigroup's Perth office, was also found to have communicated inside information ...

Standard Life fined $4m for bad marketing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... proper systems and control over the Pension Sterling fund, which includes the marketing material. The regulator's investigation found the marketing material was not "clear, fair and not misleading" because it referred to the fund being wholly invested ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation into the Dollarforce Group of companies, in particular Elite Equities Limited (Elite) and Fuoco. Between 23 February 2005 and ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Fund. US Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Leuschen to resolve Leuschen's role in Cuomo's investigation of corruption involving the New York State Common Retirement Fund ("the CRF"). Under the terms of the agreement, Leuschen ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... to the longevity of the fairer sex. "The average improvement in mortality over the five years since the previous investigation was almost 50 per cent higher for males than for females over the childhood and young adult ages," it said. This means that ...