Personal Finance – The Ombud for Financial Services Providers has handed down another ruling – the fifth so far – against financial adviser Michal Calitz, who advised a number of his clients to invest in the Relative Value Arbitrage Fund (RVAF), which turned out to be a scam.
Calitz was paid R8.4 million in share profits from the RVAF before it collapsed in July 2012, the month the master-mind of the scheme, Herman Pretorius, committed suicide. The RVAF collected an estimated R2.2 billion from about 3 000 investors.
