Meg Heffron and Ian Martin appointed to Cooper Review

appointments SMSFs self-managed super funds superannuation industry chief executive government

5 August 2009
| By Corrina Jack |

Meg Heffron, regarded as one of Australia’s best self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) professionals, and Ian Martin, former chief executive of BT Australia, have been appointed to the Cooper Review panel.

All sectors of the superannuation industry would now be represented on the panel, according to the Self-Managed Superannuation Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery.

“We’re delighted that both Minister Bowen and the panel chair, Jeremy Cooper, have appreciated the benefits of expanding the range of representation on the panel.”

Prior to the latest appointments, shadow superannuation minister Chris Pearce believed the Government had excluded key industry players from the review panel.

However now, after two months, due representation has been given to both retail and SMSFs, Pearce acknowledged.

"The Government has finally come to recognise the importance of both retail funds and self-managed super funds to the retirement future of hard working Australians," Pearce said.

Heffron is a qualified actuary who practises exclusively in the self-managed fund arena.

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