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COOPER REVIEW
People & Products
Jeremy Cooper, who led a government review into superannuation, has been appointed as a non-executive director at Bennelong Funds Management. ...
Superannuation
If the Government does not act, then the super industry may have to build a MyPension environment....
Editorial
The industry funds are seeking to play the consumer protection card in their defence of the default funds under modern awards regime but the real beneficiaries of the sta...
Superannuation
ISA’s Whiteley claims the existing default funds regime is a safety net sanctioned by three inquiries, including FSI....
Superannuation
The Government is intent on proceeding with changes to superannaution fund governance to bring them into line with publicly-listed companies....
Superannuation
FSC chief executive, John Brogden, has accused critics of the Australian superannuation system, including the Financial Systems Inquiry, of using badly outdated data....
Superannuation
With eight years having passed since the ‘Simpler Super’ review, it could be time to reopen a dialogue about the future of super, Bryan Ashenden writes....
Financial planning
The Department of Treasury has pointed to the role of financial advice in assisting consumers to engage with the financial system....
Accounting
The ICAA has defended the ATO’s SMSF jurisdiction while suggesting consumers need to take more responsibility for their advice outcomes....
Policy & Regulation
New legislation that empowers the tax office to hand out reformist penalties to SMSF trustees who inadvertently break the law has been praised by SPAA....
Financial planning
Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....
Superannuation
New research reveals wide differences in costs of MySuper products but a narrowing in the gap between industry fund and retail products....
Editorial
The Abbott Government has provided David Murray with plenty of scope to go deep when he leads the forthcoming Financial Systems Review, writes Mike Taylor....
Superannuation
The notion that self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should have a 'competency test' as suggested by visiting European financial literacy specialist Robert Holzmann ha...
Superannuation
SPAA CEO Andrea Slattery has shut down the notion that SMSF trustees should have a competency test, deeming it elitist....
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FWIW I am a long term holder of both. I am relaxed about my LICs trading at a discount. Part of a cycle. I would like...
The term "The democratisation of private assets continues to gain steam" is marketing misleading. There is no democracy...
I have passed this exam, and it is not easy or fair exam. It's no wonder that advisers are falsifying their results. ...