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Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... 2013 and 4 January 2014, AustralianSuper spent $9.37 million on advertising. The next biggest spender in the Industry SuperFund group was Cbus, at $4.84 million, followed by HESTA, which spent $2.75 million. On the retail side, Nielsen calculated that ...

Advised pre-retirees more confident about retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... retirement. At the same time, unadvised pre-retirees are considerably less likely to have made regular contributions to their superfund. As many as 30.4% of them made contributions over the last year, while the number increased to 43.4% in the case of ...

ISA spends $9 million on ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has confirmed that it spent around $9 million on advertising in 2013, despite some media reporting a much higher figure. ISA, which represents 15 super funds including AustralianSuper, Cbus, Hesta and HOSTPLUS, confirmed ...

WA Super appoints Shanahan as chair

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... Western Australian employees and businesses. WA Super currently has over 44,000 members and is the only locally based superfund to hold a My Super license.

Inquiry recommends MRRT and LISC be scrapped

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... Committee that the LISC should be retained. "The proposed abolition of the LISC impacts up to two million low paid Industry Superfund members by increasing the tax they pay on their super contributions - so that they are the only Australians who are ...

ISA appoints former cabinet minister to advisory role

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed the Hon Greg Combet AM to an advisory role for the next year. Combet served as a Cabinet Minister in the former Federal Government and is a former Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. As principal ...

Direct investment growth changes landscape

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
A steady rise in the number of consumers investing directly signals the emergence of a new investment landscape for wealth managers to tap into, according to a CoreData report. CoreData said the growth in the segment poses both challenges and opportunities ...

AustralianSuper awards Sevior $1.2bn mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... largest mandate went to Industry Funds Management, which managed up to $7.8 billion in behalf of Australia's biggest superfund to June 30, 2013. FIL and Perpetual managed $2.4 billion and $2.3 billion respectively and Alphinity Investment Management ...

Peter Collins to chair ISN

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... Brumby and the rest of the ISN team towards maximising the retirement savings and income of over 5 million Industry SuperFund members." "Our super system is the envy of the worl, and should remain so ISN will continue to provide much needed leadership ...

Industry funds 'treat us like dirt': COSBOA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
The Council of Small Business Australia (COSBOA) has welcomed the Government's decision to grant small businesses access to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT). COSBOA executive director Peter Strong said this would give small businesses a ...