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Years of living dangerously

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... offers substantial tax concessions for high income earners - a social inequity that the ongoing super review, the Cooper Review, aims to address. "Low income earners currently do not get a tax break on contributing to super at all," said Vamos. ASFA ...

Super savings not for govt projects: Suncorp Life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... government infrastructure projects because it could undermine member confidence in funds, according to Suncorp Life's Cooper Review submission. Suncorp Life's submission to the Cooper Review - Phase One - Governance highlighted a number of areas where ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Trustees adding excessive investment options to their super funds are violating their fiduciary duty while imposing unnecessary costs on members, said a leading superannuation academic. "The current system of a myriad of investment options not only ...

Super fund exec pay under fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... advisers and their conflicted remuneration and trail commission model. GESB could also prove a test case for the Cooper Review, which is currently reviewing the governance in the superannuation system. Unlike listed companies, superannuation funds are ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... research firm CEM benchmarking. New IFSA chief John Brogden said that IFSA hopes the new research will assist the Cooper Review, the ongoing review on the efficiency and governance of the country's superannuation system. Correction: An earlier version ...

Cooper Review calls for governance submissions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
The Cooper Review has fired its starting gun when it called for submissions in response to its "Phase One" issues paper on governance. The Super System Review, headed by ASIC deputy chairman Jeremy Cooper, today called for submissions following the ...

FPA and SPAA sign MOU

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
The industry body for self-managed super funds (SPAA) and for financial planners (FPA) have joined forces to develop policies that will help shape the SMSF sector. Both associations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on policy ...

More reform through reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Industry associations and financial services firms should not view the upcoming Henry and Cooper reviews with trepidation but rather as opportunities to improve the current system, said Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and ...

Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... Chris Bowen, the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. The review, also nicknamed the Cooper Review, is chaired by Jeremy Cooper, former deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). The review ...

Super still a great investment despite impact of GFC: Bowen

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... Bowen. To improve the system further and make it even more robust, Bowen said the government has established the Cooper Review to consider how to maximise retirement through increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and fees and lifting long-term rates ...