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Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... claimed that retail MySuper products were on average more than 25% more expensive than MySuper products of the Industry SuperFund group. Like AIST, ISA argued for the retention of the Fair Work Commission vetting process as a way of protecting consumers. ...

Baird premiership represents infra opportunity: ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has welcomed Mike Baird's rise to the role of New South Wales premier, saying it represents a "major opportunity" to progress infrastructure projects in the state. ISA, which lobbies on behalf of five of Australia's largest ...

AustralianSuper markets ME Bank products to members

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... a bank product through promotional emails to its members. In an email sent to AustralianSuper members last week, the superfund specified that it does not receive commissions as a result of its members using the bank's products and services. It also said ...

Bank complaints over TV ads seek to "stifle" competition: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) said that major banks were behind the complaints to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to the organisation's new 'Compare the Pair' television commercials. ISA deputy chief executive ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... 2013 and 4 January 2014, AustralianSuper spent $9.37 million on advertising. The next biggest spender in the Industry SuperFund group was Cbus, at $4.84 million, followed by HESTA, which spent $2.75 million. On the retail side, Nielsen calculated that ...

Advised pre-retirees more confident about retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... retirement. At the same time, unadvised pre-retirees are considerably less likely to have made regular contributions to their superfund. As many as 30.4% of them made contributions over the last year, while the number increased to 43.4% in the case of ...

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 ...

WA Super appoints Shanahan as chair

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... Western Australian employees and businesses. WA Super currently has over 44,000 members and is the only locally based superfund to hold a My Super license.

Inquiry recommends MRRT and LISC be scrapped

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... Committee that the LISC should be retained. "The proposed abolition of the LISC impacts up to two million low paid Industry Superfund members by increasing the tax they pay on their super contributions - so that they are the only Australians who are ...

ISA appoints former cabinet minister to advisory role

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed the Hon Greg Combet AM to an advisory role for the next year. Combet served as a Cabinet Minister in the former Federal Government and is a former Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. As principal ...