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Change of fund under choice regime not mandatory: FPA

... stay and that an immediate change may not be needed. She has also warned fund members not be influenced by persuasive advertising and marketing campaigns as they do not prove the fund in question has the ability to manage money in a prudent manner. Retrospective ...

Choice of super advice to be evaluated

... conjunction with the survey the regulator is continuing to review the files of financial services licensees, monitor advertising claims, and monitor complaints and industry trends in the lead up to the introduction of the choice of fund legislation.

Government steps up its super co-contribution campaign

The federal government has launched a national advertising campaign to promote its superannuation co-contribution scheme announced in last year's budget. The original co-contribution scheme matched one dollar for every dollar put into superannuation. ...

APRA warns super funds over choice advertising

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has written to superannuation trustees warning them that some advertising and marketing campaigns before the introduction of choice may breach the sole purpose test and a trustee's duty to members. The ...

Fincorp feels ASIC's displeasure

... disclose relevant information from proceeding (until those defects had been rectified) and stopped two misleading advertising campaigns. ASIC identified aggressive or misleading advertising, poor disclosure about property developments, related-party ...

ASIC moves against misleading advertising

ASIC has acted against misleading advertising by accepting an enforceable undertaking from Mortgage Point in response to the regulators concerns in 2001 that the mortgage broker included misleading statements in its promotional brochures. Brochures ...

MLC set to grow adviser network

... will be funded by the respective licensee advisers choose to join. The packages include information on marketing and advertising, client seminars, access to external business consultants who can identify growth opportunities, client surveys to assess ...

ASIC bans unlicensed advisers

... into self-managed funds. Manito first came to the attention of the regulator when it ran TV commercials in Perth, advertising its services in self-managed superannuation funds to dissatisfied superannuation fund members. At the time Manito did not hold ...

Choice will not create super turf war

... leading superannuation provider in the market. We have done our 2005 operating plan and we have no plans to ramp up our advertising budget to focus on choice next year," Dunn says. "As an Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) member I ...

S&P revises Fairfax from BBB to stable

... capital management, revenue diversity across Australia and New Zealand and a growing presence in online classified advertising. S&P believes these factors will mitigate any earnings volatility caused by cyclical advertising revenue, high fixed cost base ...