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SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...

FOFA Tranche 2 reforms tabled in Parliament today

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... 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 advice ...

AvSuper builds on its AllianceBernstein mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... "significant allocation" to the value service is designed to remove the complexity of after-tax investing of the post-Cooper review environment, said the aviation super fund. The AllianceBernstein Franked Australian Value service uses a quantitative-research ...

Ripoll defends FOFA integrity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... legislation is about is completely false, it has never been the case," said Ripoll, listing his own enquiry, the Cooper review and the work by ASIC and Treasury as contributing factors. "Of course the Minister of the day will take all of that information ...

SG Bill enters parliament with strong support

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... continue working." This will commence on July 1 2013. Challenger's chairman, retirement income, and author of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper, said the lift to 12% and more policy work on secure retirement income streams would make super last longer ...

Eaton Vance launches first Australian domiciled fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... capabilities, their global macro capabilities, obviously their bank loan capabilities... and also a solution to the Cooper Review after tax return of equity managers performance measurement, which is something they're doing in the US for over 15,000 ...

SPAA rallies against off-market trading ban

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... concerns they are being used to manipulate capital gains tax and contributions caps. The issue was first raised in the Cooper Review recommendations, which suggested SMSFs were able to choose the transfer date to coincide with a low price for the asset ...

Second generation platform consolidation push

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... generational platform and wrap models across the wealth management industry now being forced to update to survive. The Cooper Review and the European Retail Distribution Review are very similar with a move away from commissions and rebates from fund ...