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US pension fund to settle suit for $930m

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... million shares worth $132 million. The settlement is believed to be the largest options backdating recovery in a class action. The case was brought against UnitedHealth two years ago over its stock-option grant practices. The fund and several other investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... report. Price Waterhouse Coopers announces its private business barometer and survey. In company news, the Centro class action begins in the Federal Court in Melbourne. Regional Express Holdings Ltd announces third quarter results. Norfolk Group Ltd ...

Northern Trust expands reporting tools

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... requirements of its institutional clients. The firm has introduced eight reporting templates that organises data by class action event and displays the status of the entire class action court settlement for its European, Asia Pacific, Middle Eastern ...

Seniors vote against Westpoint

... Fincorp and Westpoint for example chased the grey dollar through regular radio ads. O'Neill said they welcome ASIC's class action against Westpoint to recoup as much of the combined $320 million that dissipated when the property group collapsed. NSA ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... Corp was four cents cheaper at $4.64 after it a agreed to an out of court settlement of up to $5 million to settle a class action against the telco was announced today in the Federal Court of Australia. Its instalment receipts were five cents lower at ...

US investors receive $312m from Fair Fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... Qwest Fair Fund. The Qwest Fair Fund is being administered by Gilardi & Co, one of the largest full service mass and class action notice and claims administrators in the US and signifies a much more aggressive attitude to investor compensation that exists ...

Investors get money back from failed mortgage scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
... negligently and deliberately misled them. Led by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the class action was brought against Lawyers Private Mortgages (LPM), which was a practitioner nominee company for the legal firm which promoted ...

Corp governance now a mainstream business imperative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
Corporate governance is becoming even more important as it transitions from being just a compliance obligation to a business imperative. ISS has just released the results of its 2006 ISS Global Institutional Investor Study where it interviewed more ...

FPA appoints new CEO

... that has allegedly implicated a number of FPA members and advisers, who are potentially the targets of a mounting class action. Bloch's previous positions include executive director of NSP Buck, strategic consultant with Macquarie Bank and also a stint ...

Thirty dealer groups up for $300m in Westpoint recovery

... Westpoint saga, class actions to recover $300 million are likely to centre on as few as 30 adviser groups, according to class action firm Slater & Gordon. Slater & Gordon's commercial litigation consultant, Joanne Rees, said that together with commercial ...