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Rivkin Financial Services begins shareholder push to sell broking business

The board of Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) is preparing to battle some of its shareholders and is canvassing support for six motions to be voted upon at the group's general meeting held later this month. On the table will be six motions which including ...

International All Sports defends CBA claim

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2005
Online bookmaker International All Sports Ltd (IAS) today told shareholders it was confident it would successfully defend a claim by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) that it should have known one of the bank's managers was stealing to feed ...

Unregistered investment scheme shut down

The Federal Court has granted orders allowing ASIC to appoint a liquidator to wind up an unregistered managed investment scheme promoted by George Peat. Peat promoted the scheme largely to clients of his mortgage broking business Wise Finance. The scheme ...

S&P likes First Samuel's management and Australian shares offerings

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has given boutique manager First Samuel an Assirt rating of 'strong' in relation to the organisation's management, coupled with an Assirt rating of 'competent' for the manager's Australian shares products. FSL actively manages ...

RBA keeps hand off rates

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2005
Against most expectations the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided not to raise interest rates at its regular monthly meeting yesterday and will leave the cash rate at 5.5 per cent. The decision followed much commentary from the Federal government ...

ASIC acts against wealth management promoter

ASIC has taken action against Jamie McIntyre and his company 21st Century Academy Pty Ltd preventing them from promoting any further wealth creation schemes. 21st Century Academy specialises in conducting wealth creation seminars, DVD and compact disc ...

Primelife's settlement with ASIC comes at a high price

ASIC has reached a settlement with Primelife with regards to 20 allegedly unregistered management investment schemes including a payment of up to $600,000 to meet ASIC's legal costs and up to $1 million to cover independent accountant reports. In September ...

ASIC's 'Super Switching' campaign catches Tasmanian adviser

ASIC has begun action against a Tasmanian man following its 'Super Switching' campaign launched in December last year. The 'Super Switching' campaign was developed to monitor the advice and disclosure by advisers where advisers are required to write ...

HIH fall out continues

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has barred another former HIH executive with Ross Eade being disqualified under the Insurance Act 1973 from holding a position or acting as a director or senior manager of a general insurer. Eade ...

IWL releases earning figures to win JDV shareholders

IWL has released interim earnings figures to the market as part of its efforts to take over JDV, after the board of the latter wrote to its shareholders criticising the bid for its lack of financial data. The earnings report was issued by IWL who stated ...