COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Funds management

Colonial First State Investment Managers will be expanding its alternative asset management to include multi manager hedge funds by the second half of the year....

Financial planning

Ethical investment is about to receive a shot in the arm care of some of the biggest names in retail financial services....

Editorial

Fund managers are commonly pigeon-holed as either value managers or growth managers. Rob Keavney believes this approach, borrowed from our American cousins, is both facil...

Financial planning

Fund managers are commonly pigeon-holed as either value managers or growth managers. Rob Keavney believes this approach, borrowed from our American cousins, is both facil...

Financial planning

Australian investors are finally heeding advice to diversify share investments, flocking to international share funds in droves....

Financial planning

Former Lend Lease Corporate Services chief executive Anthony Patterson will take on the role of distribution manager with Colonial First State, recently vacated by Coloni...

Financial planning

Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....

Financial planning

Supplying the right financial services to each client is not always a simple task, especially when the client base numbers in the millions. Jason Spits looks at how the C...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has begun the integration of Colonial’s 800 financial advisers into its structure by marrying both groups’ bank-based planning operations....

Financial planning

Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....

Editorial

With the recent popularity in the global biotech industry sending investors into a spin, Kate Kachor looks at the current opportunities for investing in biotechnology for...

Financial planning

I refer to Anthony Starkins’ views with respect to the outlawing of commissions (Money Management 26 October)....

Financial planning

After a delay of over a year, discount retail giant The Warehouse, is about to announce the launch of its branded financial services products....

People & Products

Michael Cant has left Australian Casualty & Life (AC&L) to take up the newly created position as Colonial First State Australia head of strategic planning and corporate s...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management chief executive Ian Martin has beaten a high profile field of candidates for the Best Millennium Fund Management Award by Australian Banking & Finance...

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

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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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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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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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