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CFS awards fixed income mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) has awarded a significant mandate to global investment management firm Man Group. CFS will be investing in global fixed income through Man Numeric, the Boston-based systematic equities and credit investment manager of Man ...

CFS Edge, North enhance platform capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) and AMP have announced updates to their respective managed accounts (MAs) platforms - CFS Edge and North - bringing new international investment options and technological advancements. The CFS Edge platform has expanded its ...

GQG loses top sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... he served as business development manager within its distribution arm for three years. Before Magellan, he worked at Colonial First State as an investment specialist and analyst. GQG Partners was founded by former Vontobel Asset Management chief investment ...

Mercer adds to wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... helped build up the brand and develop and manage client relationships. Before that, he spent four years at BlackRock and Colonial First State as a business development manager. For his part, Janes arrives from Evergreen Consultants, where he served as ...

ASIC, ASFA spar over super fund trustees 'not knowing' their business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... accounts, Aware Super charging fees for no service, Westpac/ BT incorrectly charging insurance commissions to members, and Colonial First State misleading members as examples of funds not knowing their business. "At the heart of this issue is leadership ...

Cost to maintain comfortable retirement increases

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... balanced options in super have returned at least 10.5% in the calendar year, with some funds recording nearly 12%, including Colonial First State which achieved a whopping 13.8% for its FirstChoice Employer Super balanced option. The growth also supercharged ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... is positive progress," Fidelity International head of wholesale in Australia Lauren Jackson said. Another survey from Colonial First State (CFS) found that three in five women (62%) feel they will be unable to achieve a comfortable retirement compared ...

Three in five women lack retirement confidence

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
New research commissioned by Colonial First State (CFS) has highlighted significant disparities between men and women when it comes to retirement preparedness and financial confidence. The findings, based on a survey of 2250 Australians, revealed that ...

UniSuper launches fresh brand campaign

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... launched the 'Awaken Your Super' campaign with its big blue monster, Rest unveiled the 'Super. Simple.' Campaign, and Colonial First State started urging Australians to 'Switch to unaverage super' in its new ads. Just last month UniSuper launched its ...

Family office CIO joins Heritvest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... Super's deputy investment officer Chris Grogan moved to the Cambooya family office in the same role. Late last year, Colonial First State investment manager Jujhar Toki joined the family office investment firm CH Warman Group. Further, around the ...