Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State (CBA/CFS) has topped a list of “Super Star” performers in the platform space for 2005 based on research that considered a combinati...

Nothing much has changed in the platform market during the past 12 months. The bigger platforms have got bigger, and there has been some rationalisation at the bottom end...

The margin loan outfits at Colonial First State, St George and Macquarie Bank are still the best in the country according to researcher Cannex, which has pointed to a lac...

Lonsec is the first researcher to reinstate an ‘investment grade’ rating for Colonial First State’s (CFS) Australian property funds following the recruitment of two more ...

Research by InvestorWeb has found against a prevailing notion by local researchers that active fixed interest management doesn’t add value after fees....

Research house Lonsec has taken the UBS Property Securities Fund off ‘fund watch’ and reinstated its previous rating of ‘highly recommended’ following the appointment of ...

The Commonwealth Bank has constructed a separate, walk-in investment management section in its Bondi Junction branch, in the hope of attracting more bank clients to its w...

Australian equities funds available through Colonial First State’s joint venture with US-based asset managers Acadian will be offered to Australian retail investors for t...

Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....

As Colonial First State’s global listed property offering languishes with Morningstar’s lowest ‘avoid’ rating following the loss of its team to Perennial, BT’s global lis...

ING has made a three-pronged improvement to its OneAnswer platform through the addition 16 funds, a reduction in fees charged and an enhancement of the product’s online c...

Following the defection of Colonial First State’s global listed property team to Perennial, Morningstar has downgraded the CFS global property strategy to its lowest rati...

Basis Capital and Colonial First State manage the two best Australian funds in the international fixed interest space according to boutique research house Zenith....

Research houses are urging investor caution after yesterday’s shock announcement by Colonial First State that it had lost its entire listed property team....