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Top AMP exec leaves to join BT

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... She held a number of senior superannuation roles between 1993 and 2004. BT Financial Group chief executive officer Brad Cooper said that Howes' priority will be to develop products that encourage Westpac bank customers switch their MySuper account to ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Former UBS financial adviser was banned from the financial services industry for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Sebastian Konjevic was a client adviser of UBS AG holding an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence from September 2005 ...

Firms urged to get ready for SuperStream

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... said the new system would reduce costs and eliminate the complexity that has crept in over recent years. He said the 2010 Cooper Review into Superannuation found existing processes made poor use of technology and there was no consistency in the data ...

IFM grows infra debt team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... execution of infrastructure debt investment in the UK and Europe, and will report to executive director debt investment David Cooper. Carey was previously a senior analyst in infrastructure a senior analyst in infrastructure finance at Moody's. Prior ...

Former finance broker convicted for fraud

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
A former finance broker has been convicted of two fraud charges, following an investigation from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Riyanka Puteri Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, admitted to using the identities of ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
Challenger's Jeremy Cooper talks to FS Super associate editor James Fernyhough about retirement income, challenging some widely-held beliefs about the drawdown phase of superannuation. As one-time chair of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper knows Australia's ...

FSC appoints AMP exec to the board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... Mutual Life Association of Australasia Limited. The FSC board now includes eleven directors, Schroder chief executive Greg Cooper as chairman and BT Financial chief executive Brad Cooper and Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd as co-deputy chairman ...

Queensland advice firm falls foul of regulator

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Queensland-based financial services firm LCL Capital after it found failings in the way the companyA monitored and supervised its advisers. ASIC's investigation came after a review of the advice ...

SuperStream savings 'nowhere near' estimates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
SuperStream is not delivering the member value for money that was its intended result in the Cooper Review, according to VicSuper head of employer relations Dean Pearce. Pearce said that, in order to differentiate itself in the employer market, VicSuper ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...