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Mezzanine finance conman hits Hillsong Church investors

NSW based property developer Robert John Orehek is to face trial on 30 criminal charges brought by ASIC for misappropriating money from investors most of whom were from the Hillsong Church in Castle Hill. Orehek will stand trial on three counts of fraudulent ...

New era for BlackRock

It's official. The name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) will be replaced with the name BlackRock but, besides the name change, it will be business as usual for the local arm. According to BlackRock's managing director in Australia, Maurice ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey ...

Deutsche Bank appoints new head of equity

Deutsche Bank has appointed Ross Brown as the new head of equity research for Australia & New Zealand after Tim King decided to leave the role. Ross Brown has been with the company for nearly 10 years and is currently head of financial institutions ...

Super roll-over promoter to serve time

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
A Gold Coast superannuation scheme promoter has been sentenced to jail for his part in dishonestly advising clients on the use of rolling over preserved benefits and putting the funds towards the purchase of a home. Rocco Ferrantino entered a guilty ...

ASIC bans ex-Genesys adviser

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned financial adviser, Mark Leigh Clifton, a former authorised representative of Genesys Wealth Advisers, from providing financial services for 10 years. Clifton was a NSW-based authorised ...

Former UBS head moves to Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse has appointed Marcel Kreis, formerly head of UBS Global Wealth Management in South East Asia and Pacific, as its new head of private banking Asia Pacific. Kreis will be based in Singapore and will report to Walter Berchtold, chief executive ...

One-third of US investors do not read their prospectus: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
Research just released by the US-based Investment Companies Institute (ICI) reveals that investors in the US and Australia seem to be struggling with the same information frustrations. The findings from the research, conducted in February 2006 from ...

Another Elm associate banned by ASIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a financial adviser associated with the failed Elm Financial Services group for three years for his part in convincing a couple to invest $1 million in a failed product. Sydney adviser ...

Former Westpac rep rips off $500k

A former Westpac Banking Corporation representative has received a permanent ban from providing financial services after being found guilty of misappropriating client money worth around half a million dollars. Former Westpac representative, David Jarrett ...