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US manager charged with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
The US corporate watchdog has cracked down on a Long Island-based money manager for engaging in a fraudulent investment program, which cost investors $8 million in illicit commissions and fees. Warren Nadel, through his investment advisory firm Registered ...

Banc of America Securities charged with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
US corporate watchdog SEC has charged Banc of America Securities with fraud for its part in an effort to rig bids relating to the investments of municipal securities. The bank has agreed to pay more than $36 million in disgorgement and interest to settle ...

Adviser sentenced to 8yrs imprisonment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
A former financial adviser receives a jail sentence after pleading guilty to 13 fraud charges following an ASIC investigation. Neil Francis Dodd was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in Townsville's District Court after an ASIC investigation concluded ...

Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Recent court rulings have cast doubt on millions of mortgage foreclosures across the US, potentially reducing the value of investments held by Australian institutions in related assets. Court rulings across the country have found that millions of securitized ...

ATO tackles SMSF fraud risk

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... savings, as threats to SMSFs, one of the biggest segments in the superannuation industry, become more sophisticated. "The fraud that occurs happens when they get someone's name and address and set up a fund that doesn't really exist, they then roll the ...

Dob in a fraud: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Notice a fraud activity at your super fund? Members of the US' largest public pension fund CalPERS can now complain about fraudsters following the launch of an ethics helpline. The helpline will enable the pension fund to receive tips, concerns and ...

SEC charges New Jersey with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
The US financial watchdog has cracked down on the state of New Jersey for securities fraud pertaining to fake municipal bond offerings and underfunding two of the state's largest pension funds. Mid this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Basis Yield lawsuit continues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... Yield Alpha Fund (Master) (BYAFM) released a statement responding to the Goldman Sachs motion to dismiss BYAFM's security fraud suit that is currently pending in federal court in New York. Goldman Sachs has now argued that the case is a foreign transaction ...

Former liquidator face 19 ASIC charges

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... between 9 June 2006 to 29 March 2009. He is charged with allegedly transferring $1.18 million of funds with the intention of fraud against HR Cook Investments. Falling under section 176A of the NSW Crimes Act, Ariff is facing 13 charges under this act ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...