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Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... supported calls for the industry to disclose executive pay the same way listed companies do, following the release of the Cooper report that asked whether super funds should adopt the same corporate governance rules as listed companies. This week the ...

Planners locked out of SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... for SMSFs could result in a segment of financial planners locked out of the fastest growing superannuation sector. The Cooper Review's Phase Three - Issues Paper raises the financial planning remuneration issue and questions the need to restrict the ...

SMAs to turbocharge SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review highlights separately managed accounts (SMAs) as an appealing platform for SMSFs, and has challenged the industry to come up with fresh answers on how SMAs can be adopted widely. The issues paper released yesterday highlighted the ...

Cooper Review calls for SMSF structure overhaul

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review has challenged the SMSF sector on how it deals with illegal early release schemes, the credentials of accountants and financial planners that offer advice to SMSFs and whether certain financial assets currently allowed should be banned. ...

Universal model tough to execute

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... fund members should go into a 'universal category' with a single diversified investment strategy, according to yesterday's Cooper report - but problems will arise from asset class, transition and choice limitations, argues one expert. Phase one of the ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... understand the risk they take when switching from one option to the next. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said that the Cooper Review should consider the impact on super fund members when exercising choice-of-fund. At present, there is no industry ...

Standard Life selects RBC Dexia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... provide global custody, investment administration and shareholder services to the firm's Australian-domiciled fund. James Cooper, country head for Australia at Standard Life Investments, said RBC Dexia was selected because the team understood its business ...

Hartsuyker named new shadow minister for super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... executive Fiona Reynolds said AIST looks forward to working with Hartsuyker as the industry prepares for the outcome of the Cooper and Henry Reviews. Born in Muswellbrook, Hartsuyker was a business owner before being elected to the House of Representatives ...

BT Financial names new head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... Group chief executive Rob Coombe is taking a new post within Westpac and will be replaced by former Westpac NZ chief Brad Cooper at the helm. Westpac chief Gail Kelly has announced three internal appointments to her executive team namely Peter Hanlon ...

CPRS chaos poses big risks for fin services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... left leaning or pro-climate change action Senators being elected then their attitudes to post-GFC, post-Ripoll and post-Cooper financial reforms could be even more radical than the industry has so far imagined. For example, the Greens already hold five ...