COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Financial planning

Australian equities funds available through Colonial First State’s joint venture with US-based asset managers Acadian will be offered to Australian retail investors for t...

People & Products

Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....

Financial planning

As Colonial First State’s global listed property offering languishes with Morningstar’s lowest ‘avoid’ rating following the loss of its team to Perennial, BT’s global lis...

Financial planning

ING has made a three-pronged improvement to its OneAnswer platform through the addition 16 funds, a reduction in fees charged and an enhancement of the product’s online c...

Funds management

Following the defection of Colonial First State’s global listed property team to Perennial, Morningstar has downgraded the CFS global property strategy to its lowest rati...

Financial planning

Basis Capital and Colonial First State manage the two best Australian funds in the international fixed interest space according to boutique research house Zenith....

Funds management

Research houses are urging investor caution after yesterday’s shock announcement by Colonial First State that it had lost its entire listed property team....

Financial planning

The leadership of Alan Moss has turned the Macquarie name into an industry wide synonym for success....

Funds management

Research house Standard & Poor’s has finally finished its assessment of the new faces in charge of building most of Colonial First State’s Australian Equities funds, and ...

Funds management

In the dark days of 2001-2002, when investment markets were in the doldrums, a dismal performance by the big institutional funds left a lot of planners and investors look...

Financial planning

Platform providers have again been left to play second fiddle to Colonial’s FirstChoice...

Superannuation

With the baby boomer generation now entering retirement, or certainly looking down the gun barrel, the focus on retirement income streams, by both the government and fina...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Dunn and Colonial First State chief executive John Pearce have been promoted to the roles of chair and deputy chair of the ...

Financial planning

A business set up by the CBA to take equity stakes in boutique financial planning groups has been shut down after only one year....

Financial planning

Wholesale wrap platform Avanteos has signed a deal with Colonial First State to access its FirstChoice wholesale multi-manager funds....

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 weeks 4 days ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

2 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has taken action against a Queensland adviser who was sentenced last May for misappropriating $1.8 million from his clients....

2 weeks 3 days ago

AMP is to launch a digital advice service to provide retirement advice to members of its AMP Super Fund, in partnership with Bravura Solutions. ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

A former Insignia Financial C-suite exec has taken on a leadership role at MUFG Retirement Solutions as it announces chief executive Dee McGrath will depart after six yea...

2 weeks 4 days ago