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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 ...

ASIC's Cooper to lead govt review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Jeremy Cooper, deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), is leading a panel of five experts in the Federal Government's review into Australia's superannuation system. Cooper will lead the Federal Government's review ...

Planners face higher PI fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... and retail investors will be able to bring their claims to EDR schemes, avoiding the expense of litigation," said Jeremy Cooper, deputy chair at ASIC. But the policies received mixed response from the market. Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive at the Financial ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
My forecasts are gloomier than yours! The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the ...

SMSF in-house asset rules and disclosure flawed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Adelaide, University of NSW law academic Gordon Cooper welcomed news that the ATO would work closely with SMSF trustees on in-house asset concerns and allow them a 12-month window ...