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ASIC annual report highlights record enforcement action

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reiterated its role in its 2002-03 annual report tabled in Federal Parliament this week, stressing that enforcement is integral to its regulatory function. In the report, ASIC chairman ...

ASIC made record enforcements in 2003-4: report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2003
Australia's corporate regulator achieved a record 29 jail terms for white collar criminals in 2002-03, including stockbroker Rene Rivkin, its annual report reveals. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), said it achieved record ...

Investors in need of greater awareness and access to investment decisions

... a financial planner is they dislike the feeling of a black-box operation where they don't understand what is happening inside the box," said Mr Lelliot. "Furthermore, there is growing resistance to a profession which only offers, in the main, equities ...

Perth man sentenced for insider trading

A Perth company director, Michael John MacDermott, has been sentenced to 18 months jail for each of six counts of insider trading in the shares of Roehampton Resources NL. Additionally the Court imposed a $20,000 fine on the sixth count, which must ...

Trescowthick charged, Clifford Corporation directors committed for trial

Adam John Trescowthick, the former Executive Chairman of Harris Scarfe Holdings Limited, today faced 37 charges relating to the collapse of the retailer in April 2001. The charges, brought by the Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC) ...

Former Queensland executive director prosecuted for insider trading: ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today announced that Maxwell Sweetman, former executive director of Harts Australasia, has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with two counts of insider trading in the shares ...

Rene Rivkin stands down as Rivkin Financial chairman

Sydney stockbroker Rene Rivkin has stood down as chairman and a director of Rivkin Financial Services. Earlier today the company stopped market trading of its shares. The move follows Rivkin's sentencing yesterday to nine months' periodic detention ...

ASIC defends Rivkin sentence

... criminal conviction against his name. That fact will not be lost on others who may be tempted to test their luck with small inside trades." "I don't consider it a slap on the wrist at all," Knott added. Rivkin was convicted of insider trading for buying ...

Rivkin gets $30,000 fine, nine months periodic detention

Sydney stockbroker Rene Rivkin has today been sentenced to nine months periodic detention and fined $30,000 for insider trading. The 58-year-old was convicted of insider trading for buying 50,000 Qantas shares just hours after hearing in April 2001 ...

Hedge funds trail broader indices in April: Hennessee

Hedge funds returned 3.04 per cent in April according to the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index, well below the S&P 500 (8.30%) and the Dow Jones (6.11%) indices, Hennessee said today. "The market may be on the verge of a momentum breakout but fundamentals ...