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Royal Commission and its one canoe message is on point

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
Challenger chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper said the Royal Commission's outstanding lesson for SMSF advisers is to keep their feet in one canoe. Speaking on the final day of the Self-managed Super Fund Association's national conference in ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... Melbourne this morning, the panel - which included SMSFA chair Deborah Ralston and BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper - discussed the challenges and opportunities before the self-managed super sector. All participants came to agree that without ...

Retirement expert joins Milliman

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... where she was as senior manager of retirement income policy. She was also an adviser to chair of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Most recently, Haqqani was consulting to the Financial Services Council on superannuation, retirement income and funds management ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...

8IP signs on Sanlam Private Wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... LIC holds 20-30 stocks with a market cap of $20 million to $500 million. Top holdings include Bounty Mining, Megaport and Cooper Energy. In 2015, Series purchased Sanlam's majority stake bringing the staff ownership to 100% at that time.

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
The sale of ANZ's pensions and investments business may take longer than anticipated with contracts now amended following APRA's regulatory action against IOOF. Providing a further update on the sale, ANZ said it has agreed an amendment with ...

Best-in-show splits industry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... the workforce is something BT supports, she said. At the time the draft report was released, BTFG chief executive Brad Cooper backed the idea of establishing an expert panel to select the best funds to help guide consumer choice. The Commission wants ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
Over the Christmas break, MetLife Australia's tech team took home an international award for its claims platform launched to Statewide Super's members last year. MetLife chief information officer Tim Batten's team snagged a spot on ACORD's ...

ASIC and Westpac court battle sees mixed outcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 JAN 2019
... interpretation of how general advice can be offered would be a bad policy outcome for Australians." BTFG chief executive Brad Cooper also said at the time : "We reject ASIC's legal interpretation that some customers may have thought they were receiving ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
When UK prime minister Theresa May declared that "Brexit is Brexit" and "no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal" when she addressed EU ambassadors in London on the 17 January 2017, she laid out 12 objectives for Brexit negotiations: 1. Clarity ...