{"id":302897,"date":"2025-11-23T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:22:13","slug":"hostplus-and-ceo-david-elia-get-behind-afl-rugby-basketball-with-superannuation-fund-sponsorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302897\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostplus and CEO David Elia get behind AFL, rugby, basketball with superannuation fund sponsorships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the corporate and political heavy hitters ensconced in the MCG\u2019s Olympic Room for the AFL Commission\u2019s annual grand final day lunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/heavy-hitters-turn-out-for-the-afl-grand-final-commission-lunch-20250926-p5myab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> year (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/who-s-in-and-who-s-out-at-the-ao-women-s-final-20250125-p5l77c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last<\/a>) was Hostplus CEO David Elia. It\u2019s not a crowd usually associated with industry super funds, yet not only was Elia there but he was seated in prime position on a table near outgoing AFL chair Richard Goyder\u2019s own.<\/p>\n<p>The sports-mad chief executive of the $140 billion industry super fund for hospitality workers is a stalwart of the corporate box set. And it seems Elia\u2019s fanaticism is shared by Hostplus, at least according to its substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/wealth\/superannuation\/how-big-super-is-spending-your-money-on-sponsorship-and-marketing-20241201-p5kuvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sponsorship and marketing spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the corporate and political heavy hitters ensconced in the MCG\u2019s Olympic Room for the AFL Commission\u2019s annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-302897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}