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Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... editorial enquiries, please contact Mark Smith, editor, on 02 8234 7516 or email [email protected]. For advertising and our 2015 Media Kit, please contact Moe Alshawa, Associate Director- Group Sales, on 02 8234 7532or email [email protected]. ...

Rename general advice, disclose ownership: FSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... reliance on this type of information," the report said. "Consumers may misinterpret or excessively rely on guidance, advertising, and promotional and sales material when it is described as 'general advice'," it added. In a bid to improve industry transparency ...

Gold Coast advice firm enters EU over misleading ads

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... magazines and in police journals. ASIC's investigation found that Equanimity's compliance processes in terms of its advertising were unsatisfactory and may have breached consumer protection credit laws. "Advertising of this nature will not be tolerated ...

Misleading PDS costs NAB $10,200

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... has paid in less than a month. On September 17th, the bank had to pay a $40,800 fine for misleading statements in an advertising campaign that promoted an offer of a $2,014 EFTPOS gift card for consumers who obtained a home loan with UBank. The advertisements ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... weight to Jollie's comment that mFund is a genuine threat to the wrap platform model. ASX has recently launched an advertising campaign for mFund and is planning an mFund road show for retail investors and their advisers in October.

Westpac fined over misleading statements on annuity product

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... materials following ASIC's concerns. In 2014, ASIC has taken action against 11 entities for potentially misleading advertising or potentially misleading statements made in other promotional material. The penalties include $40,800 fine to NAB, $30,600 ...

Sunsuper launches 'online insights community'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... version of the project was launched in February, and has drawn feedback on product development, customer service, advertising, communications messaging and design, investment choice, and general sentiment. In that time it has attract 2,500 members. Sunsuper ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... with the big four banks' scale and distribution channels. He said that their marketing capacity "is more than just advertising; it's using every opportunity to put the product in front of people's noses in a way in which we can't compete." However, Rodwell-Ball ...

Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Spending big on advertising may build brand awareness, but it has no effect on membership growth, according to research by CoreData. In a comprehensive study of how consumers view super funds, CoreData found that focusing on fees and services is a surer ...

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 ...