COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Funds management

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has released its ratings of the Australian equities large-cap income peer group, with BT the only manager to receive the highest rating....

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Financial planning

As the end of the current financial year approaches, Craig Day provides SMSF trustees with some tax tips for the year end - along with the traps to avoid....

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Financial planning

Aspect Diversified Futures Fund uses a sophisticated process to identify trends in both rising and falling markets and seeks to exploit them for profit. The fund, exclusi...

Tools & guides

Holding large value illiquid assets in a SMSF could prove problematic when a trust member dies. Deborah Wixted explains the obligations and options trustees and their fin...

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Financial planning

Dealer groups are considering new platform arrangements in light of proposed reforms to existing payment structures....

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Financial planning

Dealer groups owned by product providers will prosper while mid to large-scale independent planning groups may struggle to survive under financial advice industry reforms...

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People & Products

Count Financial CEO Andrew Gale has taken a board seat after being formally appointed as managing director of the company....

People & Products

To meet the increasing demand from advisers for up-to-date economic briefings, Zurich Investments has appointed Hans Kunnen as a consultant market economist....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has sold the St Andrews insurance business to BOQ but retained the other wealth management elements....

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Financial planning

CFS Custom Solutions has entered into a white label agreement to provide a platform solution for Guardian Financial Planning....

People & Products

Financial Wisdom appoints Macquarie's Mark Ballantyne to general manager role....

Financial planning

Deborah Wixted gives an update on employee share schemes and what the new rules mean for your clients....

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Financial planning

One hundred members of the Association of Independently-Owned Financial Planners will be in Vietnam this weekend for the association's two-day annual conference....

Financial planning

Deborah Wixted explains how to make the most of superannuation funds and outlines the best way to avoid the contribution cap traps....

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Financial planning

Standard & Poor's has assigned three-star ratings to two 452 Capital-managed large-cap Australian equities strategies distributed by Colonial First State....

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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