COLONIAL FIRST STATE

People & Products

Stephen Hayes has been appointed head of Colonial First State Global Asset Management's property securities team....

Editorial

CommBank reports $7,090 million profit, but weak markets and regulatory challenges drag on CFS....

Financial planning

New Canstar research confirms the popularity of term deposits and recognises competition being provided by key retail master trusts....

Financial planning

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

People & Products

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has added to its Australian team with the appointment of Andrew Mellor as associate director consultant relationships....

Editorial

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....

Editorial

The increasing acceptance of managed futures is welcome news, but Dominic McCormick believes retail investors should know what to expect....

Top 100

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

Top 100

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....

Funds management

SFG Australia launches new managed discretionary account products into allied groups - Shadforth, Outlook and Western Pacific....

Funds management

There was little change for the masterfunds sector over the year to March 2012, down by just 0.3 per cent, or $1.4 billion, to $433.1 billion....

Editorial

Bela Moore and Andrew Tsanadis find some pockets of the financial services industry are hiring while others have brought their recruitment activities to a halt....

Terminally ill clients who attempt to roll over their superannuation could end up with a big tax bill, warns OnePath technical services manager Scott Quinn....

Funds management

The top 100 global alternative investment managers now manage in excess of $3 trillion, with 20 Australian managers making the list in Towers Watson's Global Alternatives...

Funds management

Standard & Poor's half-yearly fixed interest peer review said active managers continued to struggle in 2012 as issues in peripheral Europe showed no signs of abating....

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