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Early financial advice prevents worries at the end

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Australian Unity Trustees Legal Services national manager of estate planning Anna Hacker concurred, and said despite advertising around estate planning mostly connecting the practice with retirees, there wasn't any one time to begin. "My position is ...

Insurance shake-up puts clients first

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... charges for deducting premiums from deceased members' accounts. CommInsure may have breached statutory obligations for advertising heart attack cover that was misleading and deceptive. Orr said it's open to the Commission to find ClearView engaged in ...

AMP ditches SMSF lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... sector is shifting from traditional banks to non-bank lenders, with names like La Trobe Financial and Liberty Financial advertising rates at par with the bigger banks.

AFA rejects criticism over grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... The association also used its submission to condemn Industry Super Australia's widely-discussed 'Fox and Henhouse' advertising campaign, saying it served to detrimentally impact consumer confidence in the overall superannuation system. "Consumers should ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... with respect to the Fox and Henhouse campaign and its investment in the New Daily or Pacific Hydro. However, he said advertising gives rise to the following issues: if political advertising is consistent with the intention behind section 62 the sole ...

Super funds cop governance grilling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... promotional activities of Australia's largest super fund, including its funding of ISA's fox in the henhouse advertising campaign (see p.13). Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said some of the propositions in play were whether this met the perceived ...

Finding value in Fairfax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... backs our view that there is some latent value there," he said. Despite print media receiving the least in terms of advertising spend in recent years, it's impossible to drop to a negative spend, Hopperton said. "Newspapers and magazines have already ...

Royal Commission revisits fees for no service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... theme of the inquiry, Hodge said Industry Super Australia's use of members' money to fund its fox and henhouse advertising campaign last year will serve as a case study. The first witness Paul Carter, the former executive general manager of super ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... members' money meets the sole purpose test and is consistent with the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993. Advertising and marketing expenditure, for example, may be on the radar. Such expenditure shouldn't be problematic, Hooper says ...

Poor tech derails financial services marketing: Study

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... anticipate a budget increase, majority expect to spend this on content creation, email marketing and paid social media advertising. This cohort is also more likely to address the technology shortfall somewhat - a website upgrade is the second most likely ...