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ASIC targets alleged Ponzi scheme

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
ASIC has obtained court orders freezing $14.6 million in assets of four men from Victoria and Western Australia, due to concerns about the possible operation of a Ponzi-style scheme. The orders are against Peter van de Steeg, Jonathan Ezzy, Peter Berlowitz ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... in Sydney of two failed companies, ABC Learning Services and Octaviar, formerly MFS. In Melbourne, Westpac Banking Corporation chief executive Gail Kelly addresses the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on leading a sustainable company in 2010 and beyond. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor financial markets Guy Debelle, Australian Industry Group, Westpac Banking Corporation and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd, inter alia. There are no company events items scheduled for Monday. A general ...

Khazanah buys Oriental University stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... education strategy. Khazanah has entered a conditional sale and purchase agreement to buy the stake from Raffles Education Corporation (REC). The investment will be conducted via Khazanah's wholly-owned investment arm, Rawa Investments (Cayman Islands). ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... market has globalised," he said. "If the shareholders don't take an interest and engage with companies, the 'ownerless corporation', repeatedly referred to by Lord Myners, becomes a reality." UK institutional investors manage half the listed stocks on ...

Insto investors win from govt Chi-X approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
The government's in-principle approval of Chi-X Australia not only heralds greater market competition but big savings for institutional investors. Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, backed greater competition ...

Director charged in Westpoint case

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
A director who dealt in Westpoint promissory notes has been placed on a good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to carrying on a financial services business without holding an AFSL. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment, with an order that he ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
Sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has poured over $1 billion into various global fund managers following an investment meeting in December. The SWF gave $250 million to Oaktree Capital Management and Audax Management ...

ASIC cancels Teys Property AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
ASIC has cancelled the Australian Financial Services licence of Teys Property Funds after the firm went into external administration earlier this month. Teys is now known as TPFL Ltd. The firm is the responsible entity of eleven property and mortgage ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... cents, or 1.54 per cent to $27.12, Commonwealth Bank put on 74 cents, or 1.33 per cent to $56.49, and Westpac Banking Corporation was up 25 cents, or 0.92 per cent, at $27.36. Arrow Energy fell nine cents, or 1.76 per cent, to $5.01 after major shareholder ...