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... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Three leading placement agents in Australia have filed a joint submission to the Cooper Review, stressing that the system in Australia is more transparent and markedly different to the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, one of the ...

Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... super funds should adopt the same corporate governance rules as listed companies. This week the Panel behind the Cooper Review noted that it favours the proposal that the governance of all APRA-regulated super funds should be equivalent to the standard ...

Planners locked out of SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... SMSFs could result in a segment of financial planners locked out of the fastest growing superannuation sector. The Cooper Review's Phase Three - Issues Paper raises the financial planning remuneration issue and questions the need to restrict the remuneration ...

SMAs to turbocharge SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review highlights separately managed accounts (SMAs) as an appealing platform for SMSFs, and has challenged the industry to come up with fresh answers on how SMAs can be adopted widely. The issues paper released yesterday highlighted the ...

Cooper Review calls for SMSF structure overhaul

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review has challenged the SMSF sector on how it deals with illegal early release schemes, the credentials of accountants and financial planners that offer advice to SMSFs and whether certain financial assets currently allowed should be banned. ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... the risk they take when switching from one option to the next. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said that the Cooper Review should consider the impact on super fund members when exercising choice-of-fund. At present, there is no industry standard on ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... months to fully respond to the report, especially as its findings will have to be integrated with the outcome of the Cooper Review report that is due mid-2010. The report's most profound recommendation is for advisers to assume fiduciary responsibility ...

Giant leap for super advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... recommendations from the Ripoll Inquiry on the quality of financial advice following the Storm collapse, and the Cooper Review on the cost of investments if accessed through super.

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... not delude themselves into thinking they will not receive much attention from the reviews, especially the upcoming Cooper Review. "They will also need to be considered as part of this process that we're going through to make sure that the advice been ...

Cooper stalls APRA data review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
The launch of the Cooper Review has done what 18 months of lobbying by retail interest groups and dozens of academic and rebuttal papers couldn't - it forced a halt to APRA's review of its superannuation statistics. In a statement issued late last week ...