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COLONIAL FIRST STATE
Superannuation
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has acknowledged the two class actions against Colonial First State that were filed last week....
Financial planning
Slater and Gordon has become the second to file a class action against CFS for charging FirstChoice Super members higher fees for ongoing commissions to members who did n...
Superannuation
Former Colonial First State executive director, Linda Elkins may have left the company and become a partner at KPMG but she has been named in a class action filing....
Features
In an ever-connected world, there’s no questioning the logic behind branching out to all corners of the globe, but Chris Dastoor writes, given the depth of options, you’d...
People & Products
Sarah Forman has been appointed group executive advice, while Peter Chun is now the group executive member for growth....
Features
Laura Dew explores how the managed account space could change in the future as the industry awaits the conclusion of an ASIC review of the sector....
Funds management
Colonial First State Global Asset Management has been rebranded to First Sentier Investors as it completes its sale from the Commonwealth Bank....
Funds management
Strategic stock selection combined with appropriate diversification and a modicum of luck represented the keys for the fund managers who emerged best in the latest quanti...
Features
The fund managers that received the most five Crown downgrades had a lot of 19 mixed asset funds demoted collectively, data finds....
Financial planning
With the Commonwealth Bank’s planned exit from Financial Wisdom and the sale of Count Financial, all eyes have turned to the future of Colonial First State....
Superannuation
It is only early days, but already the numbers of superannuation fund members who have lost insurance cover as a result of the Government’s Protecting Your Superannuation...
People & Products
GQG Partners has hired Daniel Bullock from Magellan as director of wholesale markets Australia as the US firm looks to expand....
Features
Planning for the times beyond your own existence is always a grim prospect, but Chris Dastoor writes that being organised will help reduce unnecessary heartache and hassl...
Outsider
Outsider wishes Linda Elkins well as she moves from her role as executive general manager at Colonial First State (CFS) to her new gig as National Sector Leader for Asset...
People & Products
Colonial First State executive general manager, Linda Elkins to move to KPMG to head up Asset and Wealth Management....
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Podcast
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...