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ASIC cautions industry after US broker tweeted into suspension

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... authority. "Social networking sites and blogs raise new regulatory challenges, particularly in the areas of supervision, advertising and books and records requirements," said Rick Ketchum, FINRA chairman and chief executive. This at a time when global ...

Yellow Brick Road seals deal with Nine

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... through its subsidiary Pink Platypus for $12.98 million, paying half in cash on settlement and half in discounted advertising over five years. In an announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Yellow Brick Road said the contracts remained subject ...

Industry brawl erupts over super network ads

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... again today as the Financial Planning Association fired a shot across the bow of the Industry Super Network over an advertising campaign that it believes harms financial planners. The print advertisements allege retail super fund members are charged ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... annual Rainmaker awards ceremony included 15 categories with Challenger seeing off stiff competition to win the best advertising campaign in both the trade and consumer division for its 'Future-proof your retirement' campaign. It also bagged the best ...

Advisory firm directors may challenge ASIC ban

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... imposed the ban for failing to disclose an equity return agreement between Seagrims and Astarra, and money received for advertising, failing to give a statement of advice to a client when recommending the client switch funds and failing to make reasonable ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... their superannuation's performance are more likely to switch their funds, and with the industry funds continuing their advertising assault the retail funds are likely to continue to face ongoing pressure."

Bravura launches mobile super site

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... superannuation and access real time account information on their mobiles. The site will provide a platform for targeted advertising and member education, as well as delivering possible cost efficiencies through a reduction in call centre activity.

Oakeshott won't back FOFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... changes. A restructured package will however conicide with an aggregate $50 million in advice industry mass market advertising campaigns, which are expected to be modified to take the fight outside the parliament and direct to consumers. Oakeshott's ...

Advisers hampered by conflicted platforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... Financial Group (Westpac). Connie McKeage, chief executive of OneVue, said the big institutionals spent a lot of money on advertising, public relations and political lobbying which could make it tough for newcomers to compete. "Distribution networks ...

AFA targets online ad campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The advice industry's latest advertising campaign to be to run by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will use a highly targeted online strategy rather than be designed to go head to head with the industry funds on national television. "We are ...