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CMC Markets launches new platform

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... no financing charged on the margin amount, investors should have more money in their pocket to trade with," said Louis Cooper, Head of CMC Markets Australia and New Zealand. "For educated, savvy investors, CFDs can be a great tool for hedging company ...

Challenger taps CFSGAM head for retirement product

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... has been appointed as head of retirement income research at the annuity-providing firm and will report directly to Jeremy Cooper, chairman of retirement income. He starts his fresh role today. Minney, who has also previously worked as head of Australian ...

Van Der Wielen heads to UK group Friends Life

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... board as a director, the thirteenth board member including Craig Meller, managing director, AMP Financial Services and Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT Financial Group.

Market plunge exposes system weakness: Cooper

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... from superannuation account balances, further exposed Australia's over reliance on equities in retirement, said Jeremy Cooper, Challenger's chairman, retirement incomes. Superannuation funds have around 32% of their investments in Australian equities ...

Industry looks to draw line under reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... 30 2010, was $630 million lower than in 2009. The end result of the Ripoll enquiry, which began in February 2008 and the Cooper Review of April 2009 remain unknown. "The uncertainty is affecting consumer confidence in our industry, it's effecting how ...

BT regroups for market push

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... and focus on its insurance and super products, developing a new platform and adding planners to its advice business. Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT Financial Group told Financial Standard that advisers numbers will increase by 140 to a total of 750 ...

Towers Watson grows team after benefiting from super mergers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... Miller expects the pace of mergers to slow down during the next twelve months, although the outcomes of My Super and the Cooper Review could prove decisive. Towers Watson aims to add around two large clients per year and has successfully done so for ...

State Super CEO heads to Schroders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... hire those with a strong investment background and broad technical capability across all areas of the business," said Greg Cooper, chief executive officer, Schroders. Schroders has also added two new faces to its fixed income team with the arrival of ...

First State Super and Health Super merger official

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
Today marks the official merge date between Health Super and First State Super, creating a $30 billion fund with more than 770,000 members. First State Super (FSS) said the merger has created Australia's third largest super fund. From Health Super's ...

Collectible nightmare just an SMSF bad dream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... director of the SMSF Academy said trustees should be mindful that it is a better outcome than the blanket ban proposed by the Cooper Review. "Arguing the toss on collectibles is really making a mountain out of a mole hill," he said. "Trustees and their ...