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COLONIAL FIRST STATE
Financial planning
Now as a standalone business, Colonial First State is investing $430 million with aspirations to be the easiest provider for advisers to do business with and will launch ...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has completed its sale of its 55% interest in Colonial First State to private equity firm KKR....
Life/Risk
Colonial First State will reduce insurance premiums on its FirstChoice Employer Super, Essential Super, FirstChoice Personal and FirstChoice Wholesale Personal products d...
Expert Analysis
Superannuation and social security are among themes where advisers are querying the most as they look to upskill their knowledge in a complex advice world, Craig Day writ...
People & Products
Jo-Anne Bloch has been appointed as independent non-executive director of Colonial First State Investments Limited and Avanteos Investments Limited....
Superannuation
Questions posed via a Parliamentary Committee may have been aimed at extracting expenditure information from major superannuation funds but they have confirmed just how d...
Funds management
The firm may have rebranded over a year ago but Colonial First State fund names will finally be phased out this month and all funds will be known as First Sentier Investo...
People & Products
Anne Ward, chair of Colonial First State and Avanteos Investments, will retire from the board at the end of the year as the Commonwealth Bank looks to sell CFS to KKR....
Financial planning
Financial advisers have been querying whether the Government’s proposed annual superannuation performance test could lead to some MySuper funds to review their investment...
Funds management
Macquarie Group has ranked as the largest asset manager in Australia with US$412 billion ($583 billion), significantly greater than its nearest rival....
People & Products
It has appointed Colonial First State’s head of superannuation, Fintan Thornton, as its head of institutional solutions to develop the firm’s partnerships and solution de...
Policy & Regulation
The Commonwealth Bank is facing court action initiated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission which might have been avoided if it had properly and transp...
Superannuation
Seven super funds have been classifying new members as ‘smokers’ by default and over 5,000 members will receive $3.6 million in compensation....
Superannuation
Superannuation fund industry representatives are expressing concern as funds face outflows of more than $60 billion as a result of the Government’s three-month extension ...
Financial planning
Global private equity player KKR is about to pick up 55% of Colonial First State from the Commonwealth Bank and, as Mike Taylor writes, it resolves a lot of challenges fo...
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