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A judge has ordered 17 companies connected to Mayfair's "failed" IPO Wealth Fund to be wound up after finding the fund's director put investor money at risk through "highly speculative" investments to make a windfall for himself.
Companies associated with Mayfair's IPO Wealth Fund should be wound up because they contained assets "artificially inflated" in value and ran what was effectively a Ponzi scheme, the Victoria Supreme Court has heard.
Mayfair director James Mawhinney has been blocked from talking to investors ahead of a hearing on an application to wind up the IPO Wealth fund, after a judge raised concerns about investors being "misled and coerced" by the investment hotshot.
A judge has criticised "inflammatory" and misleading comments Mayfair 101's director made to investors regarding attempts to wind up firms associated with the IPO Wealth investment scheme.
Race car driver and former owner of the famous Byron Bay Hotel, Max Twigg, misappropriated around $100 million in family trust money, taking steps to conceal the transfer of funds from his mother, a court has found.
ASIC has notched up a win against derivative issuer AGM Markets and two of its authorised representatives, with a court finding they engaged in misleading, deceptive and unconscionable conduct that caused investor losses of over $30 million.
An appeals court has upheld a ruling that found two firms previously run by Joseph "Diamond Joe" Gutnik and his family were insolvent, ending a long-running battle over hundreds of millions of dollars in mining assets.