COLONIAL FIRST STATE
Policy & Regulation
While the financial services industry has welcomed the delayed implementation of the FOFA reforms, the eleventh-hour nature of the decision has cost the big institutions ...
Financial planning
ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...
Editorial
As many traditional multi-asset funds disappointed during the GFC, recent times have seen many managers diversify. Deanne Fuller examines the sector....
Editorial
BT emerged from 2011 relatively unscathed in what was a poor year for retail managed funds providers....
Financial planning
Count Financial is delivering platform savings and other benefits in the wake of its acquisition by the Commonwealth Bank....
Superannuation
Freya Purnell takes a closer look at what life after Stronger Super might bring to the superannuation sector....
Editorial
According to APRA, ASIC will ultimately be responsible for acting on any breaches around advertising such as the Industry Super Network’s 'compare the pair' campaign....
Editorial
High returns can be accessed from fixed interest markets, but it is vital that investors have a portfolio that is properly diversified if they want to keep the returns th...
Funds management
The "dislocated markets" caused by Europe's sovereign debt issues are creating opportunities that quality fixed income managers can exploit, according to Zenith....
Editorial
The popularity of cash products does not seem to revolve solely around investment sentiment anymore. Milana Pokrajac reports....
People & Products
Perpetual has completed the reorganisation of its retail distribution function with the appointment of former MLC Wealth executive Matt Thompson to the position of genera...
Funds management
The Commonwealth Bank has posted a strong six-month result, but the picture for Colonial First State and wealth management is less rosy....
Superannuation
Colonial First State has warned that a section of the MySuper bill, as currently drafted, actually mandates 'flipping' to higher cost super arrangements....
Financial planning
The FOFA reforms well and truly dominated the financial planning industry during 2011 and the year ahead looks set to bring more of the same, writes Nicolette Rubinsztein...
Financial planning
Since its establishment in February this year, MLC's retirement solutions team has grown to 10 people. Of those, eight were recruited straight from AXA....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...