thatguy said:
Can the sell the shares without your permission and move the funds from the transaction to another location without your permission?
They can't do this in Australia. The shares are registered under your name (the beneficiary) and the nominee shareholder is the owner in name only and has no power to transfer ownership.
The beneficiary has the effective ownership and control of the shares.
Have you looked into MFGlobal? Someone now has a lot of $$ that they did not own
MFGlobal is a mess and nobody really knows what's going on yet.
What is known is that they definitely used client funds to cover their losses but I don't see any reports of people getting their shares sold off by MFGlobal, only that their funds in their trading accounts are gone.