The members of the Committee present their annual report together with the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2012.
Part X of the repealed Securities Ordinance (Chapter 333) established the Fund. However, when the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) and its subsidiary legislation came into effect from 1 April 2003, a new single Investor Compensation Fund (ICF) was formed to ultimately replace the Fund and the Commodity Exchange Compensation Fund. After settlement of all claims against the Fund and its other liabilities, the SFC will eventually transfer the remaining balance of the Fund to the ICF.
Part X of the repealed Securities Ordinance remains effective in respect of the operation of the Fund to the extent described in Section 74 of Schedule 10 of the SFO.
The surplus of the Fund for the financial year ended 31 March 2012 and the state of the Fund’s affairs as at that date are set out in the financial statements here.
The members of the Committee during the year ended 31 March 2012 and up to the date of this report were:
Mr Keith Lui (Chairman)
Mrs Alexa Lam
Mr Chow Ka Ming, Anderson, SC
Mr Lo Wai Keung, David (appointed on 1 April 2011)
Mr Tai Chi Kin (appointed on 1 April 2011)
No contract of significance to which the Fund was a party and in which a Committee member of the Fund had a material interest, subsisted at the end of the financial year or at any time during the financial year.
KPMG retire and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-appointment. A resolution for the re-appointment of KPMG as auditors of the Fund is to be proposed at the forthcoming Securities Compensation Fund Committee meeting.
By order of the Committee
Keith Lui
Chairman
22 May 2012