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Astarra director convicted by NSW Supreme Court

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Curacao, the court reportedly heard. Financial advisers reportedly tendered character references for Richard including Wollongong planners Colin Warne of Dominion, who was himself previously banned from managing an investment scheme and Ronald Caines ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... sentenced on May 20. It has been a busy week for the corporate regulator. On Monday it gave a life ban to Omar Diab of Wollongong who gave unlicensed financial advice and services and lied to his clients. Diab, a director of Sydney-based Xenith Capital ...

Trustee fury prompts SMSF compo rethink

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... decided to manage their own investments. Most of the 690 trustees left out of pocket by the Trio scam were from around Wollongong, NSW and the depth of their anger is reflected by the local newspaper, the Illawarra Mercury, which has mounted a "Justice ...

Cyclists raise $85k for Future2 charity

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... 28.4kph, took the cyclists from Bourke to Sydney though towns across New South Wales including Dubbo, Orange, Nowra and Wollongong. The cyclists raised over $85,000 for Future2, the foundation of the Australian financial planning profession, which supports ...

ING Aus opens Wollongong hub, to hire 600 staff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally this morning opened the new ING superannuation and investments operations centre in Wollongong south of Sydney, the upgraded hub that is set to grow its staff numbers from 350 to 600 in three years. The four-and-a-half ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, which is now known as LHMU. He replaces Mark Lennon, secretary ...

Advisers caught for market manipulation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... seven months imprisonment, fully suspended. On 18 December 2008, Musumeci a former client advisor with Bell Potter in Wollongong New South Wales, pleaded guilty to three counts of market manipulation after participating in the trading of GTG shares through ...

Value of advice winners unveilled

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... of advice of financial planning.. and this campaign is a good cause," he said. Meanwhile second year University of Wollongong student Kane Piper has won the title of Blog Star for 2008. Piper be involved in highlighting the career of financial planning ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... them or what the risks were inside them," said Martin Gold from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wollongong. Gold recently explored the issue in his research paper Reform of Investment Organisation in Australia's Local Government ...

Pillar to get $4.5 million IT upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... over 400 positions located in [Pillar] & Expansion in Pillar's client base will provide future employment growth in Wollongong [where they are based]." This latest news follows recent announcements by Pillar chief executive, Peter Cormack, that they ...