I wonder what the proposal in the quoted article - if it comes to fruition - might mean to happless PIF Investors down the track!
Nowadays, I when I see the " trade" offering innovative schemes to Investors I wonder who will be the ultimate beneficiaries - while there is a carcase the voracious sharks will keeping tearing off strips until there's nothing left.
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Escape plan for frozen funds
Nick Nichols, business editor | November 21st, 2009
FROZEN mortgage funds have been given a new option to release unitholders from their troubled investments without the need to pay them out.
The National Stock Exchange, which already has the former MFS-controlled Premium Income Fund on its boards, has devised a trading window for the distressed funds.
NSX companies manager Ian Craig, who was on the Gold Coast yesterday promoting the initiative, said the window offered a six-week timeframe for unitholders to sell out of their investment.
The window would open twice a year, two weeks after the release of the funds' financial results.
Mr Craig said the NSX had talked to several law firms operating managed funds, and many had expressed interest in the proposal.
Mortgage funds, in particular, have been hardest hit by the global economic meltdown, including a raft of Gold Coast operations.
Many unitholders have been prevented from cashing in their investment for more than a year, with some closer to two years.
The Premium Income Fund, now controlled by Jenny Hutson's Wellington Capital, has a full listing on the NSX.
Its units have languished just above 10c each for most of the past year at a fraction of the most recent valuation of 39c a unit.
Mr Craig said that the trading window was less likely to depress unit prices because of its limited timeframe.
"What it does is concentrate liquidity in that period," he said.
Legal firm McCullough Robertson has praised the plan.
Partner in the projects and property group, Kristan Butler, described it as an 'innovative solution for property managers'.
"Our experience has shown us that there is a need for a focused liquidity facility for property managers of frozen funds that is yet to be answered by the traditional frameworks," she said.
"The innovation proposed by the NSX is a sensible solution to a long-standing problem."
Mr Craig said the proposal would be implemented by the NSX within the next few weeks.
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http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/11/21/160895_gold-coast-business.html
Escape plan for frozen funds
Nick Nichols, business editor | November 21st, 2009
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There are no prizes for guessing whose husband has connections to the NSX and is a senior partner in McCullough Robertsons, the law firm recommending the NSX as our salvation.
Simgrund I suggest you contact Nick Nichols business editor of the Gold Coast Bulletin personally nicholsn@gcb.newsltd.com.au) It is time he recognised there is the need to listen to PIF investors to get the correct information and not let his media articles be influenced from word of incorrect mouth information from the PIF RE as opposed to well researched and documented evidence readily available to those with the dedication and effort needed to source and compile facts related to all PIF related issues, those people being , 'the victims', past and present. Before I sign off, a few words of wisdom from 'Teddy', Theodore Roosevolt:::::It is hoped that every potential signee to the NSX "lifeboat" looks very closely at at the PIF sorry story, which is being spruced up by NSX and other self interested parties (dare I say "related") as a very prized convert for its self promotion.
BEWARE!!!
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