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Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Regulatory reforms, politics, and high profile M&A activity dominated the financial services landscape this year - Financial Standard looks back at the stories that shook up the industry this year. It was an extraordinary year in Australian politics. ...

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
The Government has welcomed most of the recommendations from the Cooper Review - but rejected several key proposals to do with MySuper. The Cooper Review originally recommended that there should be no cost cross-subsidisation between MySuper and other ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Bill Shorten, the newly-appointed Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services, re-affirmed the government's plan to raise SG to 12 per cent and implement key reforms proposed in the Cooper Review. Speaking at an industry luncheon hosted by the ...

Northern Trust launches accounting platform

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Northern Trust, provider of custody services to Australia's largest fund - the Future Fund - has launched a new investment accounting platform tailored for the local market. The web-based platform combines local expertise and specialised reporting to ...

Treasury rebuffs MySuper critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
A major speech given by senior Treasury officials shows how critics of MySuper are missing the point that there is a fundamental shift taking place in how policymakers believe the industry should factor in behavioral economics. David Gruen, who was ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
There are significant weaknesses in the concept of asset-based fees as a means of remuneration for fund managers, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) in conjunction with actuary RiceWarner. The asset ...

ASFA principles recommend super industry changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
The rising importance of superannuation in the economy and members growing reliance on their super's performance have formed the basis for the latest ASFA Policy principles report, released this week. The principles report, which is updated annually ...

The future of super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Super funds looking more like banks, the transformation of advice as intra-fund advice takes flight, and defined contribution (DC) plans having their own regulatory arm - these are some of the outlooks for super over the next 10 to 20 years, according ...

Spoilt for investment choice

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
When it comes to the number of investment options offered by super funds, Australians say 'less is more', research shows. More than half the 1,300 respondents in the survey by super fund legalsuper said the fund's menu of 11 investment options was "about ...

Art lobby wins fight to keep SMSFs art-friendly

SPAA MEDIA STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
The Federal Government has endorsed the Cooper Review's key MySuper reforms but in a major victory for the art industry and self-managed super fund trustees, it said that it won't adopt the move to ban SMSFs from investing in 'collectables'. The leading ...