The stressful life of Sydney’s left-of-field distressed debt broker
Ben Madsen has long had a low profile. Now he’s found himself the centre of unwanted attention, and is fighting for his home. Can he come back from the brink?
Ben Madsen earlier this week. He has had a security camera installed at his home after unwanted visitors.
There are few people on this earth who might fail to realise that they are the subject of court proceedings aiming to bankrupt them.
Ben Madsen, 41, is one of them. At least, that’s according to his lawyers who told a court this week that he had no idea that he had been issued a bankruptcy notice by HG Investment Capital, a small-time lender that invests largely on behalf of the city’s Vietnamese community.
Primrose RiordanAssociate editorPrimrose Riordan covers private companies and family offices from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. Primrose was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and covered foreign affairs and politics in Canberra. Primrose has won multiple awards for her journalism including from The National Press Club, SABEW in the US and Press Gazette in the UK. Message Primrose on Signal: https://tinyurl.com/PrimroseSignal Connect with Primrose on Facebook and Twitter. Email Primrose at primrose.riordan@afr.com
