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REST Super taps Asia directly

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
REST Super has awarded a $25 million Asian equities mandate to Cooper Investors - the first time the $17 billion-plus industry fund has forayed into direct Asian equities investments. Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Super, said key executives of ...

ASFA calls on Cooper to aid SuperStream reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on Jeremy Cooper, chair of the Super System Review panel, to write a paper that will outline the right framework to deliver key SuperStream reforms. The paper will be presented at ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... consulting at UBS, said there will also be implications for investment markets as he believed it unlikely many of the Henry and Cooper recommendations would be adopted. More crucially, Boubouras noted that the property sector could be indirectly affected ...

SuperStream to deliver $20bn in savings

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... would be put in place by 2012 so super funds, administrators and employer groups can implement the changes proposed by the Cooper review. "Because of the large volume of savings in 10 years, we are seeking a commitment from both the Government and Opposition ...

Time to lift operational reserves: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... particularly if they do not have reserves already in place. With super funds already under pressure on the fee front due to the Cooper Report and the Gillard government's endorsement of the report's MySuper recommendation, news that fees will have to ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
With the ink hardly dry on the Cooper Report's recommendations for a Trustee Code of Practice, the prudential regulator APRA has released revised trustee guidances on capital structures, risk management, resources adequacy and trustee fitness. Following ...

SMSFs carry underlying key person risk: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... superannuation funds," said Deborah Ralston, director professor at ACFS and co-author of the report. This comes after the Jeremy Cooper's Super System Review on self managed super solutions found the sector is running efficiently. "The vast majority ...

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 ...

Motor Finance Wizard withdraws interest-free loans

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
Motor financial services group Motor Finance Wizard, famous for its "Motor Finance Wizard said yes!" ads about interest-free loans, withdrew its ads following ASIC concerns they were misleading and provided some clients with "unaffordable credit". In ...

Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Proposed trustee governance reforms will fix many of the regulatory gaps in the system, but Cooper Review panelist Sandy Grant questions adopting 'listed company' type governance measures, such as mandatory pay disclosure, just for the sake of having ...