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Plum adds super lawyer to board

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... Superannuation Trust as a board trustee. Haines, a senior superannuation and financial services lawyer, was a consultant for the Cooper Review and a member of the Stronger Super Peak Consultative Group. She is also a member of the International Pension ...

Treasury Group appoints CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... the Group and we wish him every success in his new role as General Manager of the Future Fund," said Fitzpatrick. David Cooper will continue work in an interim executive capacity until Mr McGill steps into the CEO role in mid July.

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... GBST to provide after-tax benchmarking solutions to assess fund manager performance. The $28 billion fund said that the Cooper review had made the case for super funds to implement after-tax benchmark and return methodology all the more apparent. "We ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Thursday, as a recovery in commodity prices sparked a more positive performance in share prices on Wall Street. On the ASX 24 at 0713 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 24 points ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... balances, an industry expert said today. In his keynote speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney, Jeremy Cooper, head of Challenger Limited retirement products division, said longevity risk meant that $500,000 would not be enough to ...

Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... are unprepared for a superannuation system that is rapidly changing with the biggest problems not of their making, Jeremy Cooper said today. Cooper, the former head of the Superannuation System Review, told a packed ballroom of industry professionals ...

Regulators cautioned on world exchanges

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Tony D'Aloisio, chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has warned regulators of the dangers of misunderstanding stock exchange mergers speaking at an international conference for the last time as chairman. At the 2011 International ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... funds, presenting a big opportunity to life offices and super funds to create products that mimic the age pension. Jeremy Cooper, former head of the Superannuation System Review who now heads the retirement income products division at Challenger Financial ...

Intersuisse adds senior roles to institutional desk

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Stockbroker Intersuisse has appointed former Macquarie bank and Stonebridge institutional dealers in associate directors roles to lead its own institutional dealing desk. Former Macquarie Bank dealer Will Cleland has moved into one of the associate ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Christian Super is supporting the decision by the Baptist Union of NSW and ACT to raise the superannuation levy for Ministers of Religion from 9 per cent to 11 per cent. There have been concerns that due to unique taxation arrangements to help churches ...