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Ratings round up

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... Morningstar published new reports for Aspect Diversified Futures, giving it a 'Recommended' designation and Colonial First State's FirstChoice Australian Small Companies and Fixed Income strategies, evaluating both at "investment grade".

AFA targets online ad campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... plethora of other advice industry campaigns now in the media, including those currently being executed by Colonial First State, Westpac, Newcastle Permanent and the Industry Superannuation Network. While the campaign has been stirred by what the AFA ...

CFS builds in corporate super

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Colonial First State tackles employer super issues by releasing retained benefits functionality for FirstChoice Employer Super (FCES). Staff turnover is a major hurdle for many employer super funds, according to research by the Australian Human Resources ...

Budget 2011: minor investors cut short

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... investing on behalf of minor or making trust distributions to minors," said MLC. According to both MLC and Colonial First State, this is because currently it's possible for a minor to receive a maximum tax-free income of $3,333 pa when LITO is taken ...

UniSuper chair to retire

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... chairman when Elizabeth Bryan steps down from the role at the end of June. Cuffe was a former chief executive of Colonial First State Investments and Challenger Financial Services Group. He is a director of other organisations including Centric Wealth ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... manager of the boutique. He has over 10 years experience in wealth management with UBS and prior to that with Colonial First State. Former UBS colleague Michael Vidler joins them as senior investment analyst. Bennelong, which has generated close to $2 ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Colonial First State subsidiary Realindex Investments has launched an emerging markets index fund that seeks to remove the drag of weighting distortion with value investing techniques. The fund, which will have fees of 79 basis points per annum and ...

Fund reaps reward in shopping centre debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... re-negotiating another term. The deal is the first investment for UniSuper's new CMBS portfolio, managed by Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Pearce said while the super fund has invested in this type of debt in the past, it was usually through ...

Advisers freed from duplicate work

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... from the widely-used XPLAN software to the dealership platform. The upgrade is a joint development between Colonial First State and software providers IRESS Wealth Management Solutions, makers of XPLAN 2.0. It sends eApplications directly from the XPLAN ...

Advisers fear super fund competition

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... individual would be paid for by the entire membership. Nicolette Rubinsztein, general manager of strategy at Colonial First State asked Minister Shorten whether intra-fund advice bundled into the administration fee would be the trail of the future. Minister ...