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Cooper stalls APRA data review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
The launch of the Cooper Review has done what 18 months of lobbying by retail interest groups and dozens of academic and rebuttal papers couldn't - it forced a halt to APRA's review of its superannuation statistics. In a statement issued late last week ...

Years of living dangerously

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... system offers substantial tax concessions for high income earners - a social inequity that the ongoing super review, the Cooper Review, aims to address. "Low income earners currently do not get a tax break on contributing to super at all," said Vamos. ...

Super savings not for govt projects: Suncorp Life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... in government infrastructure projects because it could undermine member confidence in funds, according to Suncorp Life's Cooper Review submission. Suncorp Life's submission to the Cooper Review - Phase One - Governance highlighted a number of areas where ...

Cooper throws down super gauntlet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Super System Review chair, Jeremy Cooper, gave a wide ranging interview on the ABC's Inside Business yesterday that should immediately dismiss any concerns that he is leading just another harmless superannuation inquiry. From whether super should be ...

Centro execs to face tough penalties

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... addition, Samuel Kavourakis, Peter Goldie and Louis Wilkinson, all former non-executive directors and James Hall, Paul Cooper, non-executive directors also form part of ASIC's civil proceedings. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Gulf wealth to engulf stockmarkets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The Gulf region stands to destabilise global asset prices depending on how it redeploys its investment capital, after new data found the value of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) oil and gas reserves could be as much as $40 trillion - worth more than ...

CalPERS reviews US$50m fees to placement agent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
The largest public pension fund in the US, CalPERS, is to investigate "success fees" paid to placement agents by its external fund managers after a disclosure report found more than US$50 million in fees were paid to a placement agency ran by a former ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... super tax concessions are being allocated across the economy, indirectly provoking the explosion in SMSFs, the Henry and Cooper reviews, and the expected government reviews of these tax concessions. The focus on costs reinforces increasing attention ...

FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
The US has teamed up with Egypt in one of the largest crackdowns on cyber fraud - resulting in 100 people linked to an international "phishing" operation charged for trying to defraud American banks. According to a press statement from the Federal Bureau ...

Super fund exec pay under fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... against advisers and their conflicted remuneration and trail commission model. GESB could also prove a test case for the Cooper Review, which is currently reviewing the governance in the superannuation system. Unlike listed companies, superannuation ...