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CommBank buys IWL

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... dismissing the company's board and replacing chief executive Otto Buttula. The purchase became final after the Victorian Supreme Court authorised court orders lodged by IWL on Friday. IWL will initially be a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank, before ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... eligible for parole on November 1 2009. The case dates back to September 2002, when ASIC obtained interim orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland in Cairns to appoint an interim receiver to an unregistered, managed investment scheme, operating as Drury ...

AUI expands retail arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... HortonAndrews was previously employed in the legal division at ASIC and worked as a barrister and solicitor at the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. Farrar previously worked as head of business development at Neville Ward Direct ...

Planning business gives teachers bad advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... targeting teachers has been found guilty of providing super switching advice that was misleading or deceptive. The Supreme Court of New South Wales found First Capital Financial Planning, under the business name Edplan, did not have a reasonable basis ...

ASIC acts to shut down scheme owing nearly $8m

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... against a managed investment scheme which owes investors roughly $7.87 million. ASIC has taken action in the Adelaide Supreme Court to have a managed investment scheme operated by Jonathan West, of South Australia, and his company John West & Associates ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme Court of New South Wales ordered the winding up of Integrated Lending Pty Ltd, Integrated Lending (Victoria) Pty Ltd and the managed ...

Stringent orders for winding up of Sovereign fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
The Supreme court of Queensland has denied an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) application for an independent liquidator to be appointed to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund. Sovereign Capital, the responsible entity of the ...

Noonan replaces Wason on CBUS board

... Construction & General Division in September. Noonan declined to comment on the election adding he is subject to a Supreme Court order taken by Wason which prevents him and other CFMEU officials from publicly discussing any alleged investigation. The ...

Another HIH exec faces the music

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... most high profile corporate collapses and prosecutions in Australia's history. Lo's case was transferred to the Supreme Court for mention on 6 October.

Financial mentor to be wound up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) obtained court orders to proceed with liquidation. The Supreme Court of Queensland also ruled that director Andrew Carr had carried on a financial services business without holding an Australian ...