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BHP pays $50M to settle US class actions over Samarco mine
Class Actions 2018-08-09 3:49 pm By Christine Caulfield

Mining giant BHP Billiton has reached a $50 million deal to settle the US class action over the 2015 dam failure at the Samarco mine in Brazil.

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Iluka Resources says shareholders didn’t read the fine print
Class Actions 2018-08-09 11:25 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Iluka Resources has shot back at claims in a shareholder class action that it made misleading statements about projected sales volumes, saying the statements were accompanied by extensive disclaimers about its ability to predict future sales.

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Politician charged with insider trading of Australian biotech stock
Securities 2018-08-08 11:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A New York politician who was one of the earliest supporters of President Donald Trump has been indicted on charges of insider trading related to his investments in Australian biotech firm Innate Immunotherapeutics.

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Myer stayed silent after CEO’s ‘cloud cuckoo land’ forecast, court told
Trials 2018-08-08 3:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

Myer had an obligation to correct remarks by former CEO Bernie Brookes in 2014 that the department store expected increased profits the following year, because there was no reasonable basis for the statement, a court heard Wednesday at the start of trial in a shareholder class action alleging the company breached its disclosure obligations to the market.

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Eclipx may face shareholder class action
Class Actions 2018-08-08 9:42 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Eclipx group is looking at a possible shareholder class action following recent drops in its share price after it disclosed that its published profit growth forecasts need to be revised downwards.

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Westpac dodges ASIC bid for rogue trader chatter
Financial Services 2018-08-07 9:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

The corporate watchdog can’t get its hands on documents detailing Westpac’s disciplinary measures against rogue traders or communications between the employees ahead of a penalty hearing in a case that found the bank attempted to influence the Bank Bill Swap Rate.

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ASIC to embed corporate cops in big four banks
Financial Services 2018-08-07 2:02 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will get a $70.1  million boost to fight corporate wrongdoing as part of a funding package that includes a plan to embed ASIC staff in the big four banks and AMP.

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DQ’d exec appeals ruling that Gadens email was proper service
Securities 2018-08-07 12:53 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A Perth businessman has filed an appeal of a judge’s ruling that an email forwarded by a Gadens lawyer from ASIC alerting him that he had been disqualified from serving as a director constituted proper notification.

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WorleyParsons CFO told earnings targets a ‘stretch’, email reveals
Class Actions 2018-08-06 11:04 pm By Christine Caulfield

A week before WorleyParson’s CEO promised shareholders net profits in excess of $322 million for the 2014 financial year, the engineering group’s global finance director told its CFO that the company’s earnings targets were “a stretch”, according to an email uncovered in a shareholder class action.

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GetSwift class action should be reheard by new judge, Full Court told
Class Actions 2018-08-06 9:03 pm By Miklos Bolza

The judge overseeing the GetSwift class action proceedings was bent on picking a winner from the outset and should be removed from the case for rehearing, a barrister for one of the losing law firms told the Full Federal Court Monday.

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