今天的一篇文章，很多同胞又上当了，投资要小心！

休

AS many as 6000 investors in collapsed property giant Westpoint Corporation face losing $1 billion, the biggest corporate failure since HIH, with some already forced to sell their homes.

Projects involving 3,000 apartments are in various stages of completion, The Daily Telegraph reports. Some have been suspended with nothing to show except a hole in the ground.
The Perth-based group, which is controlled by Perth property magnate Norm Carey, began to fall apart a month ago, but the number of people affected and the amount they could lose is only starting to emerge, the newspaper says.

Westpoint Corporation, which is also behind the Scots Church redevelopment at York Street in the Sydney CBD, failed to lodge full financial reports last year and that has made it hard to determine the number of victims and the amount they lost.

The paper says some victims, mostly middle-income retirees looking for a safe place for their life savings, have had to sell their homes already.

There had also been reports of suicides and marriage splits following the collapse.

Hundreds of the victims are from Sydney's Chinese community, rocked by the shame of losing money particular to the culture.
The main product Westpoint offered investors was mezzanine finance, where people lend money to the company to develop property in return for receiving interest payments.

Victims say they first noticed something was amiss when their regular interest payments stopped arriving early last month.

A few days later, seven of Westpoint's 14 property funds - considered separate entities under the law - sank into receivership or administration.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has started to wind up the whole group

http://www.finance.news.com.au/s ... 34716-31037,00.html

[ Last edited by 休 on 2006-1-16 at 08:23 AM ]

thunder

多少能要回来点吧

alex1031

God bless them, pool guys.

bulaohu

On today's tele there is a Malaysian-Chinese living in Chatswood who invested 900K+ in this scheme and lost it all. His family is facing a very hard future because he borrowed against their house Chatswood...He said the company paid incentives to Chinese brokers to prompt this "investment" particularly among the Chinese community.

bulaohu

And experts say that even if they can get anything back at all, it will probably be years later......

bulaohu

According to "poor dad rich dad", now it's time for those who have cash to hover around those property lawyer's office to hunt for bargains...like Charlie Chaplin said in <Monsieur Verdoux>, "Business is a ruthless business, my dear."

daomeidan1234

woody

哪里都有黑幕,哪里都有陷阱 --- 出国了,我算明白了这个现实.

投资需要知识,需要智慧,需要理性,千万不要人云亦云,不要冲动与跟风,更不容忍贪念与无知.

谢谢休大师的转载.

无尽的爱

woody  在 2006-1-16 10:56 PM 发表:

哪里都有黑幕,哪里都有陷阱 --- 出国了,我算明白了这个现实.

投资需要知识,需要智慧,需要理性,千万不要人云亦云,不要冲动与跟风,更不容忍贪念与无知.

谢谢休大师的转载.

说的对，虽然我没再投资上吃什么亏（因为没投资过，呵呵），其他方面也有相同的感受

四个字的名字

谢谢分享`

四个字的名字

我转到文学成去了　：)

jfding

http://www.finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,17831111-462,00.html?from=rss

jfding

it is not cheating, it not gambling. It is investment. Though it is fail.

fantergaruo

东门吹风

thanks LZ for sharing, investment is battle .

feihu28

澳洲投资地产公司倒闭 6000人12亿元泡汤

（新加坡）联合晚报 (2006-01-17)

　　（柏斯讯）澳洲一个以投资房地产来换取高息的理财计划“爆煲”，6000名投资者亏损达10亿澳元（约12亿4000万新元），当中大部分苦主都是退休长者，包括数百名华人。

　　这些投资者一心以为投资“低风险”项目可以为财富增值安享晚年，但现在部分人得变卖房屋，甚至有人自杀及婚姻破裂，澳洲证券投资委员会正展开调查。

　　总公司设于澳洲柏斯的Westpoint Corporation一个月前倒闭，是HIH以来最大宗公司倒闭，受影响人数之多及面临损失数额之巨正慢慢开始浮现。HIH是一家保险公司，2001年倒闭，涉及债项达53亿澳元。

　　Westpoint Corporation进行的房地产项目涉及3000个预定在不同时期完工的住宅，但部分已停工。

　　该公司向投资者提供的主要产品是复杂的“夹层融资”（Mezzanine Finance Scheme），投资者借钱予该公司发展地产，换取定期的利息收入，声称它比买物业及股票安全。但事实上它极具争议，财务专家多年来已警告它有极高风险。

　　一公司前主席及首脑损失逾173万元

　　大部分苦主是中等收入退休人士，一心为终身储蓄找寻安全的理财工具及为财富增值，当中包括知名行政人员如前OneSteel主席埃夫里及前新南威尔斯货运首脑麦高恩，两人共损失逾140万澳元（约173万6000新元）。

　　另外数以百计苦主是悉尼市华人，他们声称该公司雇用华裔独立财务顾问引他们投资。

　　抵押寓所投资马国移民血本无归

　　59岁的马来西亚华人移民PC（化名）前年误信财务顾问之言，变卖所有投资，抵押寓所向银行借钱，斥资93万3000澳元（约116万新元）投资西点的发展项目，满以为晚年生活再无烦忧，如今不但血本无归，更不知如何应付每月4500澳元（约5580新元）的还款。PC说，妻儿对他把寓所抵押非常愤怒，他忧虑这次投资失利不但输掉全部身家，更可能家庭破裂、妻离子散。

　　苦主称，上月初收不到定期利息后才发现出问题，数日后，Westpoint14家房地产基金中的7家遭接管。

　　澳洲证券投资委员会于去年圣诞节前，展开Westpoint公司清盘的程序，并正调查该公司，希望公司交出可以解释最少4000名投资者储蓄去向的文件。

　　由于该公司未有提交去年的全面财务报告，因此真正的受害者人数及损失数额仍未清楚。破产管理人估计损失可能约为3亿澳元，但其他消息人士指数额可能逾10亿澳元。

　　破产管理人代表托特德尔说，一些发展项目甚至尚未开始，因而投资者可能要等多年才能知道是否可取回部分金钱，但问题是现时并没有钱可以取回，正研究是否有其他选择。