COLONIAL FIRST STATE

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...

Financial planning

Fiducian Portfolio Services has restructured its senior executive team following its recent listing on the ASX....

Financial planning

Bendigo Bank has joined forces with SMF Funds Management in an effort to shake up its lagging position in the superannuation market....

Financial planning

Tasmanian Trustees is looking at boosting its funds management business through internal growth and its new joint-venture banking operation with Bendigo Bank, says new ch...

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