Octaviar
Octaviar Limited (formerly MFS Limited) was an Australian diversified investment company in the funds management and financial services sectors. The company, once valued at $2.4 billion was forced to sell its main asset, the Stella Group, in February 2008 and in March 2008 the value of the company had fallen to just $480 million. As of August 1, 2009 the company is in liquidation. The company was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange on 31 August 2009 after failing to pay listing fees. History * 1999: McLaughlins Financial Services Limited, founded by Michael King, receives ASIC AFSL 227010 * June, 2000: Acquires Noosa Junction Shopping Centre * November, 2000: Launches MFS Premium Income Fund * July, 2001: Acquires MFS Leveraged Investment and Securities Trust * 2002: MFS subsidiary, McLaughlins Financial Services Limited acquires over A$250 million of real estate assets * 2003: MFS subsidiary, McLaughlins Financial Services Limited, acquires property at Queen Stree ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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MFS Living & Leisure Group
MFS may refer to: Education *Maryknoll Fathers' School, a government-funded co-ed in Hong Kong SAR, P.R.C. * Master of Forensic Sciences, a specialized professional degree *Miletich Fighting Systems, a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Pat Miletich *Moorestown Friends School, a private Quaker school located in Moorestown, New Jersey *Moscow Finnish School, a Finnish private school in Russia Organizations * Metropolitan Fire Service, South Australia's government-funded fire service *Stasi, or Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit''), the security and intelligence organisation of the German Democratic Republic *Syriac Military Council (ܡܘܬܒܐ ܦܘܠܚܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, ''Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo'') Technology *Metropolitan Fiber Systems, a telecommunications service provider acquired by WorldCom in 1997 * Mobile financial services, a term used in Mobile banking *Misfiring system or antilag system, a system used on turbocharged cars to cu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charbel Nader
Charbel Nader is an Australian investment banker who was the architect of a number of innovative Film Financing transactions in the 1990s the most notable being a series of Village Roadshow off balance sheet film financings which funded Films such as ''The Matrix'' series and ''Ocean's Eleven'' in conjunction with Warner Bros. After a successful stint in Sydney with News Corp Australia's venture capital vehicle e-Ventures and PBL/Nine Network where he was responsible for the Macquarie Nine Film raising; a joint endeavour between the Nine Network and Macquarie Bank he returned to Melbourne as managing director of McHudson Corporate. In June 2007 he was recruited by Pitt Capital Partners. to head up and establish a Melbourne office of the Investment Bank which is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of Australia's oldest publicly listed corporations Soul Patts which also owns 61% of New Hope Group. He is credited with leading the Pitt Capital Partners team that successfully completed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listing (finance), listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states and so have associations and formal designations, which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation, though a corporation need not be a public company. In the United Kin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Park Hyatt
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacation properties. Hyatt Hotels & Resorts is one of the businesses managed by the Pritzker family. Hyatt has more than 1350 hotels and all-inclusive properties in 69 countries, across South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The Hyatt Corporation came into being upon purchase of the Hyatt House, at Los Angeles International Airport, on September 27, 1957. In 1969, Hyatt began expanding internationally. Hyatt has expanded its footprint through a number of acquisitions, including the acquisition of AmeriSuites (later rebranded Hyatt Place) in 2004, Summerfield Suites (later rebranded Hyatt House) in 2005, Two Roads Hospitality in 2018, Apple Leisure Group in 2021, Dream Hotel Group in 2023 and Standard Internat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Companies Based On The Gold Coast, Queensland
A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether Natural person, natural, Juridical person, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the State (polity), state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * List of legal entity types by country, business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and For-profit, profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Defunct Investment Companies Of Australia
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Defunct may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when comp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Navigator Global Investments
Navigator Global Investments (NGI) is an Australian alternative investment management company headquartered in Toowong, Brisbane. It has been publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) since 2006. Background The company was originally founded in 1998 as HFA Holdings Limited (HFA) by Spencer Young. In April 2006, HFA held its initial public offering to become a listed company on the ASX. Its listing price was A$1.10 per share. One of the companies that helped it list was MFS Limited which was also a cornerstone investor making it a significant shareholder. In December 2006, Young stepped down from role of CEO of HFA to take a more strategic role and was succeeded by Paul Jensen. Jensen was only with the company until September 2007 when he was dismissed from his role with Young taking back charge of the company. Jensen would later sue HFA for unlawful dismissal seeking more than A$7.15 million in damages. HFA's counterclaim stated Jensen engaged in seriou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Structured Finance Solutions
Structuring, also known as smurfing in banking jargon, is the practice of executing financial transactions such as making bank deposits in a specific pattern, calculated to avoid triggering financial institutions to file reports required by law, such as the United States' Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Internal Revenue Code section 6050I (relating to the requirement to file Form 8300). Structuring may be done in the context of money laundering, fraud, and other financial crimes. Legal restrictions on structuring are concerned with limiting the size of domestic transactions for individuals. Definition Structuring is the act of parceling what would otherwise be a large financial transaction into a series of smaller transactions to avoid scrutiny by regulators and law enforcement. Typically each of the smaller transactions is executed in an amount below some statutory limit that normally does not require a financial institution to file a report with a government agency. Criminal enterp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Packer
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September 1967) is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer. He is the grandson of Frank Packer. He inherited control of the family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, as well as investments in Crown Resorts and other companies. He is the former executive chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) and Consolidated Media Holdings, which predominantly owned media interests across a range of platforms, and a former executive chairman of Crown Resorts. , Packer's net worth was assessed as 4.95 billion by the '' Financial Review Rich List'', ranking him as the eighteenth-wealthiest Australian; he was the richest person in Australia in 2006 and 2007. '' Forbes Asia'' magazine assessed Packer's net worth at 3.6 billion in January 2019, the ninth-richest Australian. In June 2022, the Federal Court approved Blackstone's takeover of Crow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |