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Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... The report also found that bank and institutionally aligned platforms are highly favoured among advisers. Colonial FirstChoice tops the chart, housing 10,072 advisers with an 11% market share. AMP Flexible Lifetime (6876), Perpetual WealthFocus (5992) ...

Colonial Super Retirement Fund rejigs managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... Sentier's Australian Small Companies. The two geared funds currently offered (CFS Wholesale Geared Share Fund and FirstChoice Wholesale Geared Global Share) will be replaced by First Sentier Australian Share and Multi-Manager Global Share respectively. ...

Colonial First State hires to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... for manager selection and portfolio construction for liquid alternative exposures. His primary portfolio will be the FirstChoice Alternatives. The hire takes CFS's investment team to 22. The business has $144 billion in total assets as at December en ...

HUB24, Netwealth top platform rankings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... incorporated electronic ID verification services to automate KYC checks and super withdrawals, while Praemium and CFS FirstChoice launched tools for advisers to electronically send documents to clients for digital acceptance," Choi said. "Improvements ...

Bad year for super funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... negative for the year, resulting in nearly 76% of the funds reporting negative net earnings. Colonial First State FirstChoice Superannuation Trust had the lowest net earnings for FY20 at about -$2.7 billion. About 36 funds posted negative net earnings ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... Management's Asgard Employee, BT Super and Westpac Group Plan (lifecycle) Colonial First State Investments' FirstChoice Superannuation Trust lifecycle (lifecycle) AUSCOAL (lifecycle) EISS Super AMP's AFLPA and AFL Industry MySuper, and MySuper ...

Retail default fund tops performance table

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... bottom was Zurich SP - Zurich Managed Growth EF (1.2% p.a.), Essential Super Personal - Lifestage 1980-84 (1.9% p.a.), FirstChoice WPS - FirstChoice Wholesale Diversified (3.3% p.a.), AvSuper - Growth (MySuper) (3.7% p.a.) and AMP's MySuper 1980 ...

Acadian reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... Wholesale Australian Equity Fund is now offered at the lowest fee for an active Australian equities manager on the FirstChoice menu," Acadian said. Acadian said the reductions were an outcome of a review undertaken following its decision to bring wholesale ...

The platforms with the most advisers

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
Colonial FirstChoice remains the platform used by the most advisers, with about 11% market share, according to latest Rainmaker estimates. CBA's platform is used by 9835 advisers and 1085 Australian financial services licence. It is followed by ...

CFS super distribution lead joins Allianz Retire+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... today," Rady said. Thornton joins Allianz Retire+ from Colonial First State where he led the distribution efforts for FirstChoice Employer Super and Commonwealth Bank's Essential Super for three years. He also served as head of distribution strategy ...