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FIIG appoints acting managing director

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities appointed founding director Jim Stening to acting managing director, pending the appointment of a new chief executive. Stening's appointment follows a decision by current managing director and chief executive Mark ...

Court blocks IOOF class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... disclosing confidential IOOF documents to any person. Earlier this month the court ordered Maurice Blackburn's litigation funder, Harbour Litigation Funding, to cease the provision of funding and any other support for legal work performed by any person ...

Future Generation donates $4.71m to charity

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... funding for both FGX and FGG charities with each passing year. "Our big vision is to become the second biggest private sector funder in the Australian non-profit sector after the Paul Ramsay Foundation."

IMF Bentham announces $30m bond issue

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... unique opportunity for investors to seek diversification in a defensive sector." IMF Bentham is the largest litigation funder in Australia, now offering its services in overseas jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong ...

Charities must go corporate or face extinction: Koda

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... in which they must deal with changes in government policy, increased regulation and accountability, rising costs, higher funder expectations, the need to prove impact, systemic change, tougher competition and the impact of digital disruption. "Boards ...

Court approves Premium Income Fund settlement

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... estimated that profit after capitalised overheads but before tax would be of about $8.7 million. IMF is the litigation funder of the class action. It has funded Wellington Capital and individual unit holders. PIF was a managed investment scheme that ...

Investors get conditional agreement against Great Southern

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Litigation funder Bentham IMF has reached a conditional settlement against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme Great Southern. According to a release on the ASX, the terms of the settlement remain confidential to the parties and are to be the ...

Court ruling on Storm, "a blow" to consumer action

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
The Federal Court's decision to approve the appeal by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on the settlement between Macquarie Bank and the victims of Storm Financial is "a serious blow to direct consumer action," the litigator ...

Macquarie and Storm victims settlement "wrong": Court

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
The Federal Court of Australia has determined that "a substantial wrong" occurred on May 2013 when a judged approved the settlement between Macquarie Bank and the victims of the Storm Financial fraud. The Court approved the request for appeal made by ...

ASIC appeals Macquarie's Storm settlement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appealed against the Federal Court's decision to approve a settlement between the former clients of Storm Financial and Macquarie Bank. The settlement follows a class action brought against ...