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AUI Retirement Village Fund makes first acquisition

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Australian Unity's Retirement Village Property Fund has made its first purchase, the Geelong Grove Retirement Village in Grovedale, Victoria. The Australian Unity Retirement Village Property Fund was established to provide investors access to the growing ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... rating of CDOs, mortgaged-backed securities and other structured investments back in the days -- when the GFC stood for Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis - encouraged investors to go on a buying spree. And while we're at it, Standard ...

Chartwell dir Hoy jailed 13 yrs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... director, from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia based on false financial statements provided by Hoy. Chartwell was a Geelong-based company that allegedly traded investor funds on local and global financial markets. ASIC said that Hoy operated one of ...

Former Chartwell director pleads guilty

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... Enterprises director, Graeme Hoy, has pleaded guilty to 47 charges relating to the collapse of the firm. Chartwell, a Geelong-based company, allegedly traded investor funds on local and global financial markets. Hoy was charged with 148 counts of obtaining ...

Women in Super help raise $2.1m for breast cancer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... breast cancer. Record numbers of people took part in the 2010 Mother's Day Classic events in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hobart, Melbourne, Parramatta, Perth and Sydney's Domain. There was also a large increase in participation ...

Chartwell director charged with $22m fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... committal hearing concerning the co accused, former company secretary of Chartwell, Ian Rau is currently proceeding in the Geelong Magistrates Court. Rau has been charged with one count of carrying on a financial services business without a financial ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my columns since the GFC no longer stood for the Geelong Football Club but the Global Financial Crisis. And this is that Wall Street - and by extension, most other equity markets ...

Chartwell execs face criminal charges

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... executives of Chartwell Enterprises are facing a combined 243 charges brought by ASIC for the $60 million collapse of the Geelong-based investment firm. Queensland police yesterday arrested the former executive of collapsed investment firm Chartwell ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... calls for China to revalue its currency even before GFC became known to stand for the Global Financial Crisis and not the Geelong Football Club as most Australians know. Western nations protested the way China was flooding the world with its cheap exports. ...

Storm subsidiary in liquidation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Geelong-based Victorian Families Retirement Investment Group has been placed in "provisional liquidation" after its parent company Storm Financial called in the receivers. The group was placed into provisional liquidation by the Federal Court in Brisbane ...