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Storm Financial Limited was a financial advice company, based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The company was founded by Emmanuel Cassimatis and his wife Julie Cassimatis as a private company initially with the name Cassimatis Securities Pty Ltd on 23 May 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010.01.18 Corporate history of Storm Financial Ltd )〕 As part of the company’s expansion outside of Townsville the company changed its name from a personality based name to ozdaq Securities Pty Ltd on 10 April 2000. This name remained intact until 1 Feb 2004 when it was relinquished consequent to trademark objections from the NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States. The company then traded as Storm Financial Pty Ltd from 2 Feb 2004 until 14 Jun 2007 at which time the company became an unlisted public company and continued trading as Storm Financial Ltd from 15 Jun 2007 in preparation for making an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2007. This IPO was subject to a Storm Financial Prospectus which was dated 14 Nov 2007 and lodged with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) on the same date. Storm Financial Ltd continued to trade until external administrator Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants were appointed on 9 Jan 2009. The main creditor Commonwealth Bank appointed receivers and manager KordaMentha on 15 Jan 2009. ==Business== At the time of Storm Financial’s proposed listing on 17 Dec 2007 Storm Financial had over 146 employees in 13 offices in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Storm Financial Prospectus s4 (Storm Overview) )〕 Storm Financial was financial planning business which gave advice across the broad spectrum of financial products including advice on, but not limited to:- investments, unit trusts, superannuation, life insurance and associated traditional and margin loans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Storm Financial Ltd FSL )〕 Storm had approximately 13,000 clients across Australia with $4.5 billion of funds and loans under advice (FLUA) as at June 2007. Of Storm’s 13,000 clients, approximately 3,000 (23%) had some form of gearing associated with their portfolios and recommended by Storm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Storm Financial Prospectus s4 (Storm overview) )〕 A cornerstone of Storm’s business model was to acquire and aggregate other financial planning businesses into a single conglomerate whose practices, quality control and the manufacturing mechanics of the advice was consistent.〔 In August 2008, Storm Financial's clients had A$4.8 billion invested in the Storm branded index funds that were managed by Colonial First State and Challenger and other non-Storm branded funds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Storm Financial Prospectus s4.3.5 (choice of fees) )〕 By October 2008, that had dropped to A$3.5 billion, primarily as a result of falling share values. In August 2008, approximately 37 percent of investments were being funded by margin lending. In October 2008 it had 13 000 clients. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Storm Financial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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