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Mercer calls for delay to super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... Returning to the discussion around stapling, Boyfield said it is likely superannuation funds will begin to target their advertising and marketing campaigns to young workers in a bid to nab new members. To combat this, Boyfield said a framework should ...

Mayfair found to have misled

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... investments. The Federal Court found Mayfair made false and misleading statements about the M Core Fixed Income Notes, advertising them as fully secured financial products when funds were actually lent to a related party and not secured, used to pay ...

AFCA left toothless on Mayfair complaints

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... it applies to retail investors and sophisticated investors," Brody said. "The law also doesn't prevent direct advertising to sophisticated investors. Mayfair was on Google and in mainstream newspapers with full page ads for a long time there. If ...

Life Company of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... training efforts, maintained high levels of service for both advisers and customers and kept a high profile through advertising their products," he said. The Beddoes Institute's Adviser Survey provided the research for the Underwriting Award and the ...

Admin fees could balloon from BFID

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... the super fund said. Retail superannuation funds, which will continue to benefit from their parent company's big advertising budget and fork out dividends from members' savings, are major concerns of the not-for-profit sector, thanks to loopholes ...

State Street loses Fearless Girl replica claim

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... commercial purposes." The matter relates to a 2016 statue of a young girl standing akimbo. It was commissioned by advertising agency McCann from artist Kristen Visbal as a part of State Street's campaign to promote its SHE fund (the SPDR SSGA Gender ...

Vanguard finds dirty assets in ESG fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... Neither firm commented on who was responsible for the occurrence. In last year, ASIC has stepped up its scrutiny of advertising in managed funds. This triggered a wave of name changes in "cash plus" or "enhanced cash" funds. In June 2020, it asked 13 ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... currently invests in companies that operate in payments, entertainment, cloud computing, software services, e-commerce, advertising, energy and hardware. "Since our inception nineteen months ago, the fund is up 67%, outperforming our benchmark MSCI AC ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... effort from ASIC to clamp down on how fund managers advertise. This year made it clear that going forward, truth in advertising will be paramount. Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong During COVID-19 volatility, Australians poured $35 million into ...

ASIC unveils school banking program review

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... customer-acquisition strategy, the report found, adding that young children are vulnerable consumers and are exposed to sophisticated advertising and marketing tactics by the banks. Interestingly, 84% of parents surveyed are satisfied with the program. ...