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Cooper Review wants bigger role for APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
The Super System Review's recommendation to expand APRA's role among superannuation could be the key to unlocking many of the potential benefits arising from the Review. This direction in the recommendations is strategically crucial because it is not ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... features speeches from financial services minister Chris Bowen, Virgin Blue chief executive John Borghetti and Super System Review chairman Jeremy Cooper. On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower after disappointing US jobs data cast a shadow ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Super System Review chair Jeremy Cooper said market forces in super aren't enough to drive the best outcome for members, arguing that contrary to industry claims, fund fees have gone up, not down, in the past decade. In his speech at the Committee for ...

Cooper Review unveils MySuper, officially

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... proposal as the first step towards providing commission-free super to all Australians. Officially called the Super System Review, the Cooper Review was set up last year to investigate the governance, operations and efficiency, and structure of the current ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Australia's superannuation market will be closed to new entrants under proposals by the Super System Review (SSR) that could effectively shut down competition, entrench incumbents and force small funds to merge. The proposals are in the review's MySuper ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Jeremy Cooper, head of the Super System Review, estimates super funds can save up to $1 billion in costs by doing little things that add up to mean a lot. Speaking at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CSMF) yesterday, Cooper detailed the 'super stream' ...

No cane toad approach to SMSF shake-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... will do its very best not to release a cane toad into the SMSF sector," he said. On the whole, Cooper said Super System Review's research on SMSFs found are well run. "The sector has driven down costs and we've seen good compliance levels, and importantly ...

SMAs to turbocharge SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... managed accounts, the Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP), welcomed the inclusion of SMAs in the super system review and IMAP chair Toby Potter said IMAP will be making a submission on why SMAs are critical to SMSFs. "We regard this as a ringing ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... outliers like the 2008-09 liquidity crisis. Ultimately, she said, ASFA's submission for the second phase of the super system review aims to address the need for a simple and uniform way to compare investment risks.

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... fees are seven times cheaper than the average industry fund in Australia, it's almost guaranteed that the Super System Review will be taking a good hard look at these types of structures.