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CBA slashes profits, boosts dividends

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
Commonwealth Bank has rewarded shareholders with a generous dividend payout despite its latest results falling short of expectations. December 2020 half-year results show the bank's net-profit after tax dipped 21% to $4.9 billion on the prior corresponding ...

Acadian hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
Acadian Asset Management is growing its research team with a new appointment. Steven Wong has been named vice president of research and associate portfolio manager. He will be responsible for researching Australian and global quantitative equity portfolios ...

CFS Investments chair to retire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The chair of Commonwealth Bank's Colonial First State Investments and Avanteos Investments will retire at the end of year. Anne Ward will finish up her eight-year term as non-executive director and chair at the end of December 2020. The group is ...

Retail super fund scores best customer service nod

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
A retail superannuation fund has taken the top spot in a comprehensive member satisfaction and experience survey, bumping off AustralianSuper from the top. Colonial First State has regained the top spot in the Forrester Research's 2020 Australia ...

CFS partnership to sustain advice industry

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
Colonial First State has entered into a partnership with graduate coaching provider Striver in order to drive graduates into the financial advice industry. The partnership will see CFS assisting university graduates with support through education, mentoring ...

CFS super distribution lead joins Allianz Retire+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
The head of superannuation distribution at Colonial First State has commenced in a new role, leading a newly created institutional partnership strategy at the retirement specialist. Fintan Thornton has been appointed head of institutional solutions ...

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
A former financial adviser and licensee director has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for misappropriating close to $2 million for his own use. Graeme Walter Miller of Myocum, New South Wales was sentenced on July 31 after pleading guilty to ...

Aussies reevaluate retirement prospects

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
New research has revealed Australians are feeling significantly less confident about their retirement prospects, with many fearing they will have to work longer in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Surveying 1000 Australians in June, the CFS Retirement ...

Former CFSGAM chief joins Yarra Capital board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
The former chief executive of Colonial First State Global Asset Management has joined the Yarra Capital Management board as a non-executive director. Yarra Capital announced that Mark Lazberger has joined its board after running CFSGAM for 10 years ...

CFS drops fees on external fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
A UK systematic manager has dropped the fees on a managed futures fund for Australian investors distributed by Colonial First State. The Aspect Diversified Futures Fund (class A), which had $614 million in total assets at June end, was reduced from ...