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ISA targets 'sales incentives' in new ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has pulled no punches in its latest multi-platform advertising campaign which emphasises the controversial sales culture within banks. The ads will be released today across television, print, digital and outdoor sites ...

New report stokes 'Compare the Pair' flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
A new superannuation report by the McKell Institute has fanned the flames of the on-going performance debate between industry and retail funds by highlighting the returns gap between the two segments over the last 25 years. The research uses historical ...

ASIC to renew focus on misleading advertising

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... mislead consumers," the report said. Industry Super Australia (ISA) recently changed the latest campaign of 'Compare the pair' advertisements over ASIC concerns that they were misleading to consumers. ASIC took 48 different actions within financial services ...

Retail funds also guilty of 'Compare the Pair' vagueness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... at half the price of the average super fund." ASIC expressed concern that ISA's use of the word average in its Compare the Pair advertisements may have been misleading to consumers. It asked ISA to "clarify the terms 'Average Retail Super Fund' and 'Average ...

ISA to change Compare the Pair ads

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) will change its 'Compare the Pair' advertising campaign to include disclaimers after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) expressed concern that the ads were misleading to consumers. In future advertisements ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... little surprise that global equities have recovered and active managers are more popular." The second factor is decreasing pair-wise stock correlations, which measure the tendency of any two stocks in an index to move in line with each other. Data from ...

Bank complaints over TV ads seek to "stifle" competition: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... complaints to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to the organisation's new 'Compare the Pair' television commercials. ISA deputy chief executive Robbie Campo told Financial Standard that "the bank-owned retail funds ...

ASIC to consider complaints about ISA's 'Compare the Pair'

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will consider complaints about the new Industry Super Association (ISA) 'Compare the Pair' campaign, over concerns that they are "misleading." Commissioner Greg Tanzer confirmed that the regulator looked at ...

ISA spends $9 million on ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... impact." This follows news that ISA has put out a tender for an advertising buyer, following the renewal of its 'Compare the Pair' campaign. ISA will continue to work with its creative agency responsible for the 'Compare the Pair' ads, The Shannon Company. ...