Friday, June 24, 2011

Allan Hubbard Saga: When Monkeys Attack! (UPDATE)

Sept 6 Update - Allan Hubbard Saga: Time for supporters to let go

In a farcical "report" - it is actually a cut & paste from selective media reporting with editorial comments from the author and it rambles on for 14 mind numbing pages - commissioned by the Stand By Hubbard Team and released yesterday, the author one Kerry Grass, uses innuendo, falsehoods, conspiracy theories and bald faced lies to back disgraced alleged fraudster Allan Hubbard and his position as head of several collapsed financial enterprises.

As I said, it rambles on like a ill conceived sentence looking for a full stop and since it does we will focus on just one of the bald faced lies that it contains and we have looked at before.

Supporters of Hubbard have long been pushing the untruth that Simon Botherway was involved in a conflict of interest regarding the winding up up his brothers interests in several bars and that South Canterbury Finance made the crucial first move to put his brother into receivership:

"An early demonstration that conflicts were not managed is now well known as the “Simon Botherway conflict”. Three days following the announcement of the statutory management and Serious Fraud Office investigation, media reported that Simon Botherway’s brother had his business placed into receivership by South Canterbury Finance. As a consequence of the receivership action the brother was adjudicated bankrupt on 14 June 2010.

Simon Botherway’s role as a member of the Commission was pivotal in the recommendation to place Allan Hubbard into statutory management and under investigation for fraud. Simon Botherway was also the Chairman of NZ’s newly established Financial Markets Authority. He was therefore one of the most senior members of the Commission.

During 2009 South Canterbury Finance took receivership action against the brother of Simon Botherway. The receivership was valued at approximately $6.6m. On 14 June 2010 the brother was placed into bankruptcy (www.insolvency.govt.nz). On 20 June 2010, 6 days after his brother’s bankruptcy order, Simon Botherway recommended Allan Hubbard be placed in statutory management and be referred to the Serious Fraud Office for investigation. Given SCF’s receivership action against his brother and the consequential bankruptcy of the brother, Botherway should not have had any role to play relating to any regulatory action against Allan Hubbard. Botherway’s conflict is clear and there can be no denial that it was real". June 23, 2011 Hubbard Supporters Report

Some of the above is factual, the following points are crucial to the above and they are the facts around what actually happened in relation to Botherway's brother but missing from the supporters report.

* South Canterbury Finance did not put Mr Botherway's brother into receivership as is widely accepted in the majority of media reports and the media is apparently the source of the June 23 2011 report.

* NZB (NZ Breweries) appointed a receiver on Friday 26th of June 2009. Their receivers sent a fax to SCF about 11am that morning giving them until 2pm to respond, SCF had no option but to appoint their own receivers to Merivale Ale House (Auckland Bars).

* A week later PWC advised SCF to place the South Island bars in receivership so they could control all the businesses.

Read the publicly available Receivers Report

* The investigation was led by the Companies Office and to the knowledge of my source* there were no Sec Com staff involved in it, and there were no Members of the Commission involved.

* Botherway didn't author any report on Aorangi or any of the other parties recommended for Statutory Management as widely reported and pushed by Hubbard supporters.

Clearly, if Botherway had a beef with anyone it would NZ Breweries and not SCF but of course that wouldn't nail the poison pen point home.

It just goes to show one should make sure one checks ones facts before laying ones hairy paws on ones computer keys.

Just an update with wee comment by Fran O'Sullivan on my Facebook Page on this "Report."

They should fact check first.
11 minutes ago · · ·

* Wishes to remain anonymous.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Allan Hubbard Saga: Victims Share Stories

I was motivated to write this post because of an email that touched me the other day about a victim of alleged fraudster Allan Hubbard who has lost a considerable amount of money. They are elderly, around Mr & Mrs Hubbards age, and have lost a considerable amount of their life savings. Their lives have been irrevocably changed, they are frightened for their future and are in deep despair over what Mr Hubbard's actions have done to them.

They trusted this man and have been robbed of what is left of their future.

This is not the only contact that I have had with victims of Mr Hubbard and his various financial collapses over the last year that I have been writing about this subject. There have been countless cases brought to my attention and it is about time we heard from some of them.

There has been far too much written about Mr Hubbard and his "plight" so it is about time we even the score on that count.

With that in mind I would like investors that have been burnt by any aspect of Mr Hubbard's collapsed business empire to contact me and we can tell your story here for others to read.

Contact me at shareinvestornz@gmail.com or leave a post with your story below this column.

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Share Price Alert: Contact Energy Ltd 3

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After a Share Price Alert just two days ago on Contact Energy Ltd [CEN.NZX] where shares plunged 18c or 3.13% to $5.57c due to more bad operational data and a loss of 20000 customers. The shares slipped 6c yesterday and are currently (10.16am) trading down another 3c at $5.48, a 2 and a half year low that has broken the bottom of the 3 year trading cycle (see 3 year chart below) where the downside usually stops at around $5.50.

The drops have been on much higher than average volumes.

There are rumours that majority owner Origin Energy Ltd [ORG.ASX] are keen to make a bid for the company and are mismanaging the company intentionally poorly so the share price is affected and they can come in and make a cheeky bid for the 47% odd of shares they do not already own. Its sounds an odd thing to do but nevertheless this rumour is currently doing the rounds for a number of good reasons that will remain between me and my keyboard.

This stock is looking more and more attractive everyday for the short term investor.

My last advice two days ago still stands. Buy near the current price and because of the buy-out rumours.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Share Price Alert: Contact Energy Ltd 2

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Contact Energy Ltd [CEN.NZX] shares plunged yesterday on higher than average volume due to more bad operational data and a loss of 20000 customers over the previous 12 months. Three years ago they had well over 520,000 customers and now it is down to just over 450,000.

Every possible thing that could go wrong with an electricity company for May 2011 has gone wrong and CEN shares were marked down 18c or 3.13% to finish trading near a 52 week low of $5.57.

At this price level the share has found support more than a handful of times over the last few years and rallied above 6 bucks.

To be fair the news out today was so poor this low could be tested but just be mindful of the trajectory of the share price even in the last 12 months (see chart above).

There are rumours that majority owner Origin Energy Ltd [ORG.ASX] are keen to make a bid for the company and are mismanaging the company intentionally poorly so the share price is affected and they can come in and make a cheeky bid for the 47% odd of shares they do not already own. Its sounds an odd thing to do but nevertheless this rumour is currently doing the rounds for a number of good reasons that will remain between me and my keyboard.

Buy near the current price and because of the buy-out rumours.


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