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Great Southern legal battle continues

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... quickly with the company recording under $700 million debt shortly thereafter. Further adding pressure are industry rival Timbercorp previous collapse along with Forest Enterprises Australia and Rewards Projects Ltd, where a similar situation with investors ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... sector has drawn investors' ire in the past year following the fall of investment firms such as Great Southern and Timbercorp. Matters were made worse when ASX-listed Forest Enterprises Australia Limited entered voluntary administration last month. The ...

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Almost a year on to the day Timbercorp fell, the future of the agribusiness industry remains on shaky ground - but proposed measures demanding agribusiness operators to open their books to the public, including how much debt they owe, could renew investor ...

Planners open up to Hamilton Securities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Planners are increasingly in talks with Hamilton Securities, the firm making a takeover bid for debentures of the Timbercorp Orchard Trust - but the question on many planners' minds is what the firm will do with the debentures should they win the bid. ...

Advisers to boost political clout

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... particularly after the fall of Storm Financial and advisers' roles in pushing failed MIS products such as those offered by Timbercorp and Great Southern. Meanwhile the Financial Planning Association of Australia said it has two forums for its 600 principal ...

RFM to bring cashflow back to Great Southern MIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... that very few MIS investors have been privileged to have because a large number of the MIS schemes associated with Timbercorp or Great Southern seem to be wound up because they've been determined to be unviable. "That's not the case with the almond schemes," ...

Perceived conflicts lethal to planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... want to raise consumer confidence at a time when many have been burnt by a litany of collapses - Storm, Westpoint and Timbercorp, to name a few. He even drew on the same 'perception' problem that befell politicians who receive donations from certain ...

First Super refines investment strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... a fund statement, First Super - which until recently was involved in consortium TC Growers hoping to buy the failed Timbercorp assets - had adjusted its investment options to reduce the risk of negative returns. The fund's Growth (default) option for ...

GFP snaps up Timbercorp assets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
An international forestry investment fund advised by Global Forest Partners (GFP) has signed a contract to buy Timbercorp's forestry assets - outbidding other buyers including First Super-backed consortium, TC Growers. According to a press statement ...

TC Growers closer to buying Timbercorp assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
First Super-backed TC Growers is a step closer to acquiring the failed Timbercorp's forestry assets. According to a media statement released by the consortium, which counts the $1.5 billion timber industry fund First Super and an unnamed international ...