COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Funds management

Colonial First State (CFS) has developed Australia’s first specialised post graduate program in hedge funds, offered in conjunction with Macquarie University as part of i...

Financial planning

The Colonial First State Property Trust Group will be taking to its unit holders a proposal for the group to merge with the Commonwealth Property Office Fund and Gandel R...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has recruited John Mann, the previous head of marketing at Invesco, for the role of head of brand and advertising....

Financial planning

Alternative investments have become increasingly attractive to retail investors as knowledge and awareness of the sector gains pace. While infrastructure funds have been ...

Financial planning

Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....

Financial planning

The debate on growth pensions appears to have deflated, despite promises from the Government. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

Funds management

The funds management and banking sectors have been in an acquisition frenzy during the past two years, fulfilling the industry prophecy of rationalisation. FIONA MOORE ta...

Funds management

The BT group is expected to join the growing list of major funds management groups in Australia to push headlong into the burgeoning hedge fund scene with the launch of a...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has questioned the need for a straight through processing service to hit the market, claiming such an offering at this stage would be a case of too l...

Financial planning

Colonial First State Investments has pulled out of New Zealand and transferred responsibility for distributing its funds to fellow Commonwealth Bank subsidiary, Sovereign...

Editorial

Efficient market theory does work according to Kevin Bailey who writes that the problem actually lies in the advice and research clients receive....

Financial planning

Product innovation and demographic change is making margin lending products more attractive to a wider audience. SUE WEBSTER reports on the push of margin lending into th...

Financial planning

Colonial First State Investments raked in more than $934 million in retail fund inflows over the March quarter, almost $400 million more than its nearest competitor, AMP,...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has completed almost nine months of preparations for its much anticipated new master trust, gearing up to launch the investment platform to its finan...

Financial planning

Consistent outperformance across a range of asset classes was the key to accolades in the multi-sector category of the 2002 Fund Manager of the Year awards....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months 1 week ago

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

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

19 hours ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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