Colonial First State’s FirstChoice and FirstWrap have been ranked 1st and 2nd respectively for Overall Satisfaction in the 2013 Wealth Insights Platform Service Level Sur...
Having just emerged as the highest-ranked provider in the Wealth Insights research into service levels, Colonial First State (CFS) has announced a range of upgrades to it...
Many advisers feel it’s time the investment train pulled away from the platform, but what sort of ride are they in for? Benjamin Levy reports....
Colonial First State has introduced an FDS capability and completely removed conflicted remuneration from its platforms ahead of the looming FOFA deadline....
Colonial First State has reassumed its position at the top of the Wealth Insights platform rankings. ...
Colonial First State has relaunched its regulatory reforms website for financial advisers to cope with post-FOFA environment. ...
CFS becomes first retail offering to get APRA MySuper authorisation....
Henderson executes on Australian strategy by taking 90 West AM stake....
Former CEO of Colonial First State Brian Bissaker will head up the newly acquired Virgin Money Australia, BOQ has announced....
Equity Trustees is planning to grow its internal and external distribution base and has recruited a new national manager of advice and personal services....
While significant progress has been made in achieving gender equality within the financial services industry, Milana Pokrajac and Bela Moore find there is still a long wa...
While the gender balance of the executive ranks and company boards of financial services companies remain decidedly slanted, a growing number of women are breaking new gr...
Industry executives are questioning the wisdom behind suggestions that financial planners should move their clients away from investment platforms....
Morningstar’s review of the Asian equities and emerging markets funds space in 2012 has seen one downgrade and two upgrades, with Colonial First State achieving the highe...
The retail funds management sector grew by 14.7 per cent to $471.7 billion in 2012, according to Plan for Life....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...