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Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... separately, a forestry division that has more than 175,000 hectares of diversified plantations. The firm's managed investment scheme (MIS) forms part of the firm's forestry division. But unlike other companies, ITC retains an equity stake in the plantations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... pressure. "It comes not long after Timbercorp (collapsed) and has caused quite a bit of concern about the managed investment scheme sector." Ms Saly said Westpac had been sold off heavily in morning trade after going ex-dividend. "It's dragging quite ...

FX trader guilty of $360k fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Brisbane-based resident Brett Tony Best has pleaded guilty to running an illegal managed investment scheme (MIS), which enabled him to dupe more than 200 south-east Queenslanders out of $360,000 in funds. Best, 39, pleaded guilty to one charge of dishonestly ...

ITC targets Gen Y with trees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Forestry group, ITC, is providing financial planners with access to a managed investment scheme to attract more Generation Y clients. The firm's strategy aims to pay-off Higher Education Scheme (HECS) debt fast, a key financial concern for graduating ...

Ex-director banned for 25 years

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... loans to insolvent entities, false or misleading statements to investors, and operate an unregistered managed investment scheme. In fixing the period of disqualification of Goulding the Court had regard to the fact that 'a large body of serious breaches ...

ASIC boosts online MIS registration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... accessible lodgement services to assist business. They include Form 5100 Application for registration of a managed investment scheme, Form 5101 Notification of change to managed investment scheme's constitution, and Form 5103 Directors' statement relating ...

Social investment MIS targets community projects

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... six per cent. The Community Investment Fund operates like property trust but is structured through a Managed Investment Scheme design, enabling more flexibility when tailoring investment proposals around specific charities, said Peter Ball, Foresters' ...

Fund manager sentenced

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... found he had acted dishonestly and gambled investors money. ASIC found Nathan operated an unregistered managed investment scheme, BRG Corporation, as sole director that before liquidation raised $8.8 million over a five-year period to 2006. In addition ...

ASIC bans former Money Matters adviser

ASIC STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Victoria-based Ian Bristow, one of the financial advisers who recommended Westpoint products to clients, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following a long drawn out ASIC investigation. ASIC alleged that Bristow "dishonestly" ...

Great Southern shrinks as sales drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... exercise. David Ikin, communications manager of the listed company, confirmed the sales of Great Southern's managed investment scheme projects dipped to $315 million at the end of June - a $100 million cut from $415 million the year prior. One of the ...