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Ex-director banned for 25 years

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... Wales from managing corporations for 25 years. Following an investigation and proceedings commenced by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) the Court previously found that Goulding had breached his duties as a director by allowing ...

ASIC keeps short selling ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is keeping the ban on covered short selling of financial securities until the end of May. According to ASIC, the regulator weighed up the continued volatility in global financial markets and ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... cent for the month and more than seven per cent over the last year. This performance locally follows the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) extending the ban of covered short selling on financial stocks until March. But in September ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... data for January. In company news, James Hardie defendants make final submissions in a case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The new president of Chinese aluminium producer Chinalco, Xiong Weiping, will hold a media ...

Adviser charged for contempt of court

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... investor in, a new company vehicle for the purpose of acquiring shares in a company presently trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The letters claimed that the ASX listed company was 'an Australian brand name in its industry' and had ...

Plan B buys Strategic

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Australian Securities Exchange-listed Plan B Group has acquired a 62 per cent stake in boutique advisory firm, Strategic Financial Management. Plan B's acquisition of Strategic will see it control a 62 per cent interest in the Melbourne-based company ...

ASIC catches short sale bungle

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... ASIC alleges the firm's sole director Daniel Droga, on behalf of Droga Capital, entered a short sale on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for one million Finders Mines shares on 28 February this year. The sell order traded on the ASX, but Droga ...

Advisers caught for market manipulation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... been found guilty of market manipulation following ASIC investigations. According to a statement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Rocco Musumeci and Richard John Wade were yesterday handed custodial sentences, fully suspended ...

Fin services escapes consumer law reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... explicitly exempt financial services, where consumer protections are assigned to overlapping jurisdictions of the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The exemption is one ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... Rio Tinto slipped $1.51, or 3.06 per cent, to $47.89, while rival BHP Billiton, the largest company on the Australian Securities Exchange, fell 15 cents, or 0.45 per cent, to $33.19. The decline extended to local gold miners as the spot price of gold ...