COLONIAL FIRST STATE
Financial planning
It is a phrase that will no doubt end up lost in the cluttered, oversized pile of clichés – that Australian investors are Internet savvy. However, regardless of its clich...
Financial planning
Norwich Union’s Navigator master trust has taken out the top honour in the premier service level awards for retail financial services....
Financial planning
Norwich Union's Navigator master trust has taken out the top honour and bagged five out of eight of the premier service level awards for retail financial services....
Financial planning
Lifespan is about to unveil what it believes is Australia’s first fully Web-based financial planning system. Nicole Szollos reports on a dealer group on the verge of a ma...
Financial planning
The National Australia Bank has regained the mantle as the top managed fund distributor in the retail market, dominating inflows into managed funds in the last three mont...
Funds management
In preparation for the roll out of retail and wholesale fund of funds hedge funds later this year, Colonial First State has appointed as its hedge funds consultants, Harc...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has stepped up its support for the introduction of the proposed growth pension, to fill the existing gap in the m...
Financial planning
Advance Funds Management and Colonial First State picked up the bulk of the funds management gongs at last night’s Personal Investor Awards at Sydney’s ANA Hotel....
Editorial
Stock market analysts and the media often discuss the next opportunities in sectors of the Australian market. Stuart Engel asks whether they may be missing the point. S...
Funds management
The Deutsche owned Paladin Property Securities has been recognised for its performance in the property investment market with an award of best overall fund by Property In...
Financial planning
A major shakeup of the Commonwealth Bank group in New Zealand sees Sovereign taking over the marketing of Colonial First State Investment's (CFSI) retail funds, with the ...
Editorial
Asset consultants, research houses and financial planners sometimes argue that fund managers rarely outperform their benchmark index. The question is then asked why we pa...
Financial planning
Sealcorp has dumped Colonial First State and taken on Lumley Life as life insurance provider for the massive Asgard master trust....
Funds management
Colonial First State Australia has expanded in to the domestic private equity sector with the roll out of a Diversified Private Equity Fund....
Funds management
Credit Suisse has blitzed the field in the 2001 <I>Money Management</I>/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year to take out overall line honours in the awards....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...