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PC disability insurance final report released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
The Productivity Commission (PC) has released its final report into the Disability Care and Support review and re-affirmed its recommendations that the government should establish fully-funded social insurance schemes to commence in 2015. While not ...

Re-financing of aged care announced

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Productivity Commission's inquiry into Australia's aged care system has released its final report. Fundamental changes to the way aged care is delivered and financed are proposed, including the move towards user pays. The Productivity Commission's ...

UBS wealth mgmt to review compliance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... advice while also completing a maintenance program to address its compliance deficiencies. An independent expert's final report on the program will be provided within 14 months to ASIC. If UBS WMA fails to comply, its Australian financial services licence ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... implemented for all Australians in 2015. Written submissions to the draft report are required by 30 April with the final report due mid year.

Cooper push for "Super Council"

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... will recommend the swimEC Council establish a co-regulatory super council. Cooper, who is currently completing his final report for swimEC, said he wants the council to oversee the development of common data standards for superannuation transactions ...

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
The adoption of MySuper and Superstream reforms outlined in the final report of the Cooper Review can only make Australia's super funds more formidable on the global stage, said a finance technology expert. Peter Hill, managing director of investments ...

Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... The Cooper Review flagged the idea of 'MySuper' in its preliminary report in April, to mixed industry reaction. The final report handed to the Government on 30 June, and released to the public this afternoon, restated this recommendation - but with firmer ...

Ban insurance commissions in super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... on all insurance products in super, including group risk and personal insurance, according to the Cooper Review's final report. Members can generally access insurance through super, and they continue to have cover without the need to have advisers paid ...

Cooper Review wants bigger role for APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... power in superannuation as a tool for driving transparency and comparability of member outcomes," notes the Review's final report. Putting APRA at the head of the reforms is a necessity because the Review has clearly stated that it is trustees who run ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... cost-effective way and conduct appropriate consumer research, said the industry body. "With the imminent release of the final report from the Cooper Review, the Government's response to Ripoll, the increase in SG and other budget initiatives, and now ...