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ISA ramps up campaign against super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... add unnecessary red tape for the not-for-profit sector. ISA also said the reforms prohibit industry funds from using advertising to promote their comparative outperformance or warn members about changes that could erode their savings. ISA pointed to ...

Clive Palmer ramps up calls for Shipton's head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Controversial businessman and leader of the United Australia Party Clive Palmer has mounted an advertising campaign calling for ASIC chair James Shipton to resign. Palmer took out full-page ads in several state and national newspapers with the copy ...

Your Future, Your Super reforms closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... on a day-to-day basis and how it is invested. The regulation aims to curb "inappropriate expenditure" on items like advertising, sponsorships and corporate entertainment, which "risks compromising member outcomes and eroding retirement incomes". The ...

Regulator continues crackdown on product adverts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... fund and its responsible entity, Skyring Funds Management. In June this year, ASIC warned investors to be wary about advertising that compares fixed-term investment products to bank term deposits. The regulator warned seven Res, including Skyring, to ...

Fake tax agent penalised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... $40,000 after she was found to have provided tax agent services to 350 taxpayers over the last four years while falsely advertising that she was a registered tax agent. The Federal Court imposed an injunction preventing Caolboy from providing tax agent ...

AustralianSuper dodges advertising scrutiny

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... Economics chaired by MP Tim Wilson this morning, staying mum about how the super fund with 2.3 million members spent its advertising and marketing budget in the last financial year. Silk said that he does not know what proportion of members came from ...

Super funds squander member money: Bragg

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... million over a decade. He was particularly critical of Industry Super Australia spending $40 million last year on advertising. ISA told Financial Standard in the past that it has not increased its marketing budget over the years (as at 18 March 2019) ...

Finance job ads perk up

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... financial planning, compliance and risk, and banking increased by 7% month on month. However, the sectors trail behind advertising, arts and media (16% growth), consulting and strategy (13%), human resources (12%), and legal (11%) in terms of the number ...

Vanguard fund drops "cash plus" name

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... managers snipping the "cash plus" tag from their short-term fixed income funds, as ASIC sharpens focus on managed funds advertising. Effective October 1, the Vanguard Cash Plus Fund will be renamed the Vanguard Short Term Fixed Interest Fund as the manager ...

ASIC restrains Mawhinney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... James Mawhinney which will stop him siphoning any money out of Australia. The orders also restrain Mawhinney from advertising or promoting any financial product, meaning his work with Mayfair 101 and the Dunk Island/Mission Beach development the group ...