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Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... said Chris Bowen, the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. The review, also nicknamed the Cooper Review, is chaired by Jeremy Cooper, former deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). The ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... executive at AMIST, said the fund topped-up a number of existing mandates to increase the fund's tilt to equity markets. Cooper Investors was allocated another $10 million to be invested in Australian equities while JANA, Marathon Asset Management and ...

Cooper the competition crusader is coming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Jeremy Cooper, head of the government's all powerful review into the structure of superannuation, has poured cold water on a national default fund but opened the door to a tiered model that would allow fund members to step up into more sophisticated ...

IOSCO warns against structured products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
A major review into the causes of the sub-prime crisis has been released and its key message is that if fiduciaries don't understand structured products, they should not invest in them. The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has issued ...

Super still a great investment despite impact of GFC: Bowen

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... income," said Bowen. To improve the system further and make it even more robust, Bowen said the government has established the Cooper Review to consider how to maximise retirement through increasing efficiencies, reducing costs and fees and lifting long-term ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... and reduce taxation, reinforcing government initiatives to target fees and operating structures now the subject of the Cooper Review. "National savings are critical to two looming national challenges: to increase domestic investments and reduce our foreign ...

Investors shift more money outside super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Esler, technical services manager at Centric Wealth which has $4.9 billion in funds under advice, the upcoming Henry Review, Cooper Review, changes to salary sacrificing arrangements and lower contribution caps have made clients wary of relying largely ...

Noonan heads AIST policy committee

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Committee. Noonan - the current chair of Media Super - replaces Sandy Grant, who was recently appointed to the panel of the Cooper Review into superannuation. AIST chief executive Fiona Reynolds said Noonan's experience in the financial services sector ...

Cooper targets investment fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Investment management fees may be on the chopping block following the upcoming Cooper review on super - but one fund manager cautions that reviewing fees is not enough, and equal attention should be paid to understanding the incentives behind high fees. ...

Crisis curbs Cuffe charity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Services Trust and BT Financial Group. The fund is invested with 17 fund managers including Australian equities specialists Cooper Investors and Platypus Asset Management; global credit and cash manager Colonial First State Investments and alternative ...