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J.P. Morgan hires 50 for custody business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... operation. "The GFC has accelerated the view of clients to outsource more services," he said. "Looking at regulatory change, as Cooper and Henry deliver their reports, we expect more change and that will lead to more project management activity." In ...

AMIST backs after-tax benchmarking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... benchmarks to alter how its fund managers invest. The super fund has Australian equities investment mandates with Ausbil Dexia, Cooper Investors and State Street Global Advisors. "I want them to have a really good look at their investment decisions to ...

No cane toad approach to SMSF shake-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
As the countdown begins to the release of the Cooper Review's recommendations on SMSFs, the Review's chair Jeremy Cooper said they won't be adopting a 'cane toad' solution to the industry's flaws. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

Limited advice from accountants face hurdles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... comments come after Andrea Slattery, chief executive at SPAA, outlined the association's most recent submission to the Cooper Review, which highlighted the possibility of accountants being given a licence to provide limited structural advice to clients ...

Schroders wins business from super portfolio review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... said. This is translating into more business for the fund manager across fixed income and Australian equities, said Greg Cooper, chief executive at Schroders. "Over the past 12 months we've seen solid inflows across the business," he said. "We've engaged ...

Financial services execs gain Aus day honours

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Industry heavyweights Michael D'Ascenzo, Robert Maple-Brown, and Peter Hall are among those honoured at this year's Australia Day celebrations for their work in and outside the finance industry. D'Ascenzo, ATO commissioner, and Maple-Brown, co-founder ...

AIST and VU unveil graduate course

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... knowledge. The level of training and professionalism within the superannuation industry is currently being considered by Cooper Review into superannuation, which is due to report back to the Federal Government later this year. AIST chief executive Fiona ...

The audacity of Mark Bouris and Ray Miles

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... 12 to submit their proposal. All shorlisted suppliers have to make a presentation a week later, on February 18. Jeremy Cooper, head of the Super Systems Review (also called the Cooper Review), singled separately managed accounts (SMAs) as a platform ...

Standard Life fined $4m for bad marketing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
The UK financial services regulator has fined Standard Life Assurance more than $4 million for releasing misleading marketing information that resulted in approximately 98,000 people believing they were invested in pure cash assets. The Financial Services ...

Planners forced to rewrite succession plans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... Financial Services, said an increasing number of planners worry about their succession plans, particularly with the Henry and Cooper Reviews, and the Ripoll Inquiry, casting some uncertainty on their business models. "Obviously with the debate around ...