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Industry looks to draw line under reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... was $630 million lower than in 2009. The end result of the Ripoll enquiry, which began in February 2008 and the Cooper Review of April 2009 remain unknown. "The uncertainty is affecting consumer confidence in our industry, it's effecting how much super ...

Towers Watson grows team after benefiting from super mergers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... expects the pace of mergers to slow down during the next twelve months, although the outcomes of My Super and the Cooper Review could prove decisive. Towers Watson aims to add around two large clients per year and has successfully done so for the past ...

Collectible nightmare just an SMSF bad dream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... the SMSF Academy said trustees should be mindful that it is a better outcome than the blanket ban proposed by the Cooper Review. "Arguing the toss on collectibles is really making a mountain out of a mole hill," he said. "Trustees and their advisers ...

Plum adds super lawyer to board

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... 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 and Employee ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... 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 recognise ...

AustralianSuper new player in advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... financial planning groups to create a complete advice and super service for clients. The fund said that in light of the Cooper Review, the Ripoll Report and new the FOFA reforms, a partnership between the industry super fund and planning groups makes ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... push against it. "Nothing is guaranteed especially the 9 to 12 per cent," she said. Vamos also said a third of the Cooper review recommendations had not been supported by the Government and that it was important not to forget them as they made the reform ...

Hands off collectables: SISFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... collectables left in the investment mix. The Government is seeking to introduce new rules on collectables after the Cooper review recommended they should not be permitted as SMSF investments. They are concerned that members may receive personal benefit ...

More time needed for Stronger Super side issues: Costello

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... gathering of industry professionals an insight into the issues being considered by Government in response to the Cooper Review at the morning plenary session and said that though the working group would complete its report by June, it would not cover ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... other year." Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten's office said it believes most of the legislation prompted by the Cooper Review would be passed in time for the October summit. "We've made it clear that we are not delaying our announced tax reforms for ...