colonial first state

Financial planning

Colonial First State fund revaluations show decline

Commonwealth Property Office Fund and CFS Retail Property Trust decline 11.9 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively over three-month period....

Funds management

Standard and Poor's places Colonial First State property funds 'on-hold'

Property securities portfolio manager departs company after three years....

Financial planning

Market turbulence fails to sink multi-managers

Multi-managers appear to be weathering the current market volatility better than most with some companies even reporting net increases in fund flows, according to the lat...

Financial planning

End of the line?

The fallout from the financial crisis has hit platforms hard, with funds under administration and their bottom lines slumping dramatically. And as John Wilkinson reports,...

Financial planning

The companies who pay Storm Financial

Details regarding the circumstances of the former clients of Storm Financial have emerged in the business profile created by business brokers Kenyon Prendeville....

Financial planning

Decision-makers debate 'The State of the Industry'

The Henry Tax Review, the 2009-10 Budget, industry sentiment, planner remuneration and regulation are all contentious issues that will be up for discussion at Money Manag...

Financial planning

Cashed up and in control

DAMON TAYLOR takes a look at how self-managed superannuation funds are faring in the current financial climate. ...

Superannuation

Getting comfortable on the super sofa

The global financial crisis seems to have at least one upside: Australians are taking much more notice of their superannuation, with many now wondering whether they can a...

Financial planning

Master trusts leaking funds

Plan for Life data confirms grim picture for platform wraps and master trusts....

Editorial

CFX Trust posts $226 million interim loss

Distributable income up 13.3 per cent....

People & Products

CFS bolsters corporate superannuation team

Klaus Kletzmayr takes on southern regional manager role. ...

Financial planning

Margin lenders move in to clean up

Mail campaign tries to engage Storm Financial clients...

Editorial

Taking the emotion out of investing

GRAHAM HAND compares fundamental indexing to the more traditional cap-weighted model of indexing. ...

Financial planning

In the eye of the Storm

The financial planning industry is facing renewed scrutiny and criticism in the wake of the closure of Storm Financial by voluntary administrators last week...