COLONIAL FIRST STATE

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....

Financial planning

Colonial First State is to make a major push to sell its products through the Commonwealth Bank branches, says group executive investment Peter Polson....

Financial planning

When Greg Perry announced his departure from CFS, DOMINIC McCORMICK says a vintage exhibition of marketing muscle and finesse left many research houses dancing to the inv...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has announced senior portfolio manager Simon Shields the successor to Greg Perry as the portfolio manager for the group’s flagship Australian equitie...

Financial planning

Colonial First State is preparing to launch a new master trust platform for both the Colonial and Commonwealth Bank businesses as part of what appears to be a newfound ma...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar has maintained a downgrade on Colonial First State’s flagship Australian equities fund, the Imputation Fund, following the announcement last we...

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