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Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Industry superannuation funds are spending millions of dollars a year on advertising, with some funds' expenditure even exceeding that spent by banks on their own superannuation advertising campaigns, figures released by Nielsen show. However, overall ...

"Free set up" SMSF administrator pays infringement notice over bogus claims

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... consumers to make inappropriate financial decisions" ASIC acknowledged that SuperHelp had taken steps to correct its advertising in the March edition of the Smart Investor magazine and is developing improved processes for the sign-off of advertisements. ...

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 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... is back even though its (earnings) result was choppy," Mr Lucas said. With the earnings season in full swing, jobs advertising website SEEK was the standout performer among the top 100 stocks, after a 65 per cent rise in half year profit to $87.4 million. ...

Challenger reports record annuities sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... doubt about the revival of the Australian lifetime annuities market." Benari said that, since the launch of a new advertising campaign at the end of last year, website traffic had tripled. On the funds management side, Challenger's funds under management ...

Direct insurance taints consumer views on life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... insurance through financial advice, but he added that it is difficult for the industry to match the direct insurance advertising campaigns. "They are getting big coverage in morning television or evening television. There's a fair bit of money that goes ...

Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... said that the business model was based on "various, very intelligent digital strategies that enable us to monetise advertising, products and other things in many, many other ways." He compared the business model to that used by Google and Facebook. In ...

FPA-Cbus referral deal makes promising start

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
... up between industry funds and financial planners over commissions and Industry Super Australia's "Compare the Pair" advertising campaign. Harper said the partnership with the FPA could help to forge a better relationship between the two sectors. Currently ...

Happy holidays from Financial Standard

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013

ISA and FSC clash over super in awards debate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... the resources to compete with bank-owned retail funds was "naA-ve". He said that big industry funds spend a lot on advertising, and cited the recent launch of The New Daily as evidence that they have equally sophisticated ways of marketing their products. ...