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ASIC closes Risqy Forex scheme

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane to close an illegal managed investment scheme involving $14.5 million being operated by unregistered New Zealand-based Risqy ...

China to lead IPOs again in 2008

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
The Australian and US share markets may be going through some turbulence, but IPOs in China are working to a different script as the volume of new listings in 2008 looks set to almost double compared to this time last year. According to the Thomson ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
A Cairns financial adviser has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to 14 fraud charges involving almost $1 million of client money. The Cairns District Court sentenced the man, Piet Cornelius Walters, on October 30, after he pleaded ...

Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business. The prison terms were handed to Stuart Corp and Brian Smith, directors of Corp and ...

Adviser jailed for five and a half years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
An unlicensed Queensland adviser has been jailed for five and a half years for fraud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of client money. Shane Hoy was sentenced to five and a half years jail by the Brisbane District Court after an Australian ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
An unregistered managed investment scheme has been ordered into liquidation and its directors banned from carrying on a similar business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme ...

BT appoints private bank GM

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
BT Financial Group has announced the appointment of a new general manager of the Westpac/BT Private Bank. Jan Swinhoe has been appointed new general manager of Westpac/BT Private Bank, moving from her position of general manager of Large Corporates ...

Courts continue to unwind Westpoint mess

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The Federal Court has ordered the winding up of 14 companies associated with Norman Carey and the Westpoint group. Ruling on an application made by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Federal Court ordered the winding up ...

Patersons' poor compliance under review

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on specialist stockbroker Patersons Securities to review its monitoring and supervision of staff after it found that two Patersons employees may have risked client funds through ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
Last night around 40 candidates were awarded their Chartered Financial AnalystA(R) (CFAA(R)) charter at a dinner in Sydney, part of the record 228 Australian candidates who will become eligible for a CFAA(R) charter this year. To earn a CFAA(R) charter ...