COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Funds management

Colonial First State has entered a strategic alliance partnership with Baillie Gifford to give retail investors access to a new global equity offering....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State has become a signatory to the United Nations-endorsed Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge....

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Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank’s announcement about how it will demerge its Colonial First State and other wealth businesses brings an end to an 18-year strategy, which started as...

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Funds management

Colonial First State’s FirstChoice platform has added Antipodes Partners’ Global Long-Short Strategy to its investment menu....

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Features

Money Management conducted a roundtable in which key participants discussed the evolving impact the rise of managed accounts has had on planning and platforms....

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Funds management

T. Rowe Price’s Australia Equity Strategy has been added to Colonial First State’s FirstChoice investment menu....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State Global Asset Management has launched three separately managed accounts exclusively on FirstWrap....

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Financial planning

Kimberley Holgate has been banned from providing financial services for five years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, following a finding by the reg...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that astute riding of the regulatory cycle combined with an acute understanding of adviser needs has helped reshape the Australian platform market....

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Financial planning

Managed accounts met the requirements of the post-FOFA world of compliance, client centricity and scalability, and had grown 27 per cent in the six months to December 20...

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Financial planning

CFS has added new managed account capabilities to its FirstWrap platform, and said it would launch solutions on FirstChoice later this year....

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Funds management

Following increased advisers and investors flows, CFS' alternative funds have hit $1.1 billion in funds under management. ...

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Funds management

Little known Australian managed funds have generated the best annual returns and captured the least amount of market downside, according to Financial Express' data....

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People & Products

CFS FirstChoice Employer Super has reached the $10 billion funds under management milestone 14 years after its launch....

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Funds management

Global equities had been more popular than domestic shares, passive strategies had increased and weighted index funds had seen snowballing growth, CFS said. ...

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