Is it corporate hospitality if it benefits charity?

11 March 2019
| By Rollover |
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If it’s March then it must be the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, this year being held on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

Alas, once again, Rollover notes that the traditional pre-conference Golf Day has not been scheduled which leads him to conclude that while the Royal Commission may be over, its consequences will tend to linger.

While Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne certainly had a thing or two to say about corporate hospitality on the part of some superannuation funds, the reality of the CMSF golf day was that it was a charity event supporting the blue and the pink – prostate cancer and breast cancer.

While it is true that Rollover and his colleagues may have enjoyed a few beverages and the post-event dinner, he also recalls not only the amount of money raised in the cause of defeating cancer but the level of awareness which raised among participants.

And where prostate cancer is concerned, many of those participants were in the demographic most likely to need a check of their PSA.

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