COLONIAL FIRST STATE

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...

Funds management

Investment research house van Eyk has placed a ‘hold’ rating on Deutsche Asset Management’s capabilities in the listed property trust sector....

Funds management

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

In one of this year’s biggest recruiting coups, Colonial First State has signed up one of BT Funds Management (BTFM) highest profile senior executives, Brian Bissaker, to...

Financial planning

The latest news from within the Commonwealth Bank group is just the closing moves in one of the biggest industry mergers in recent years. GEORGE LIONDIS looks at where it...

People & Products

In one of this year's biggest recruiting coup's, Colonial First State has signed up one of BT Funds Management's (BTFM) highest profile senior executives, Brian Bissaker,...

Funds management

Last year hedge funds and ethical funds were regarded as A-list investments....

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and Colonial First State have rolled their respective asset management divisions into one despite earlier assurances that such a move would no...

Financial planning

The announcement that Colonial First State Investments’ long time head of Australian equities Greg Perry will resign from his post in June this year has led to Morningsta...

Financial planning

Colonial First State Investments is set to lose one of the founders of its highly regarded funds management team after the group’s long time head of Australian equities, ...

Funds management

Colonial First State Property has reinforced its New Zealand commitment with the purchase of a New Zealand property funds management company, Kiwi Income Properties Limit...

Financial planning

Australia’s retail managed funds market has overcome the market turmoil and investor insecurity that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US to record posit...

Financial planning

The news in late December that the Commonwealth will fold the funds management operations of Colonial First State into its own operations signals the end of a slow joinin...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has restructured its business operations drawing together the wealth management and insurance operations for the first time since the merger with Co...

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