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Stonger Super second tranche amendments released

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... The government first set up the Stronger Super consultation process last February with four working groups to implement Cooper recommendations, including MySuper, SuperStream, governance and SMSFs. While the groups were wound up in August last year ...

SPAA SMSF award winners announced

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... SMSF professional who wishes to undertake postgraduate education specific to the industry, went to lawyer Kylie Wilson of Cooper Grace Ward. The Best Practice award, recognising a specialist SPAA member for best practice advice on both a personal and ...

SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... the administration and management of super accounts through the SuperStream reforms. The draft is following on from the Cooper Review's look at a standardisation process, payments and penalties between employer and a fund and fund-to-fund. Since February ...

Former BTFG chief takes Argo chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... officer, chief executive and global head of investment management for Bankers Trust Corporation. Martin was also part of the Cooper Review panel.

Default super inquiry receives positive response

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... best interests' are represented in relation to their default fund, the government said. The inquiry was recommended by the Cooper review in 2009, which found that consumers "rely heavily on the default superannuation system to act on their behalf". "Many ...

Industry responds to intra fund advice measures

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... super fund members will be paying for an advice service they will not receive. This runs against all of the Stronger Super/Cooper and FoFA reform principles. We cannot support a framework that creates two levels of transparency for financial advice," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
Australian shares are lower, breaking their six-day winning streak after Standard and Poor's warned 15 eurozone members of possible credit downgrades due to the region's deepening debt crisis. The local market extended its opening losses amid light ...

Super industry responds to MYEFO

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) which included the extension of a draw-down relief for account-based pensions, something which Cooper said highlights serious superannuation flaws. As Challenger's chairman of retirement incomes, Cooper said this fifth consecutive ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
"In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double don't worry, be happy." - Bob Marley There's a laundry list of reports out last night that should have made financial markets wobble, yet... what we got was a strong performance ...

FOFA Tranche 2 reforms tabled in Parliament today

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... extend to conflicted remuneration to risk insurance outside of superannuation. Consistent with the recommendation of the Cooper Review that insurance commissions within superannuation be prohibited as they have the potential to affect the quality of ...