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Innovative platforms create $397 bn industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Navigator FirstWrap netwealth Asgard eWrap Macquarie Wrap Other awards included best new functionality for Colonial FirstChoice and Best Navigation and User Interface award for Asgard's AdviserNET. Australia's platform industry recorded funds under administration ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... across five funds including Emerging Markets, which has $90 million. It is available through Colonial First State's FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms and financial planners.

CBA funds get small Q1 lift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... negative $1.9 billion attributed to wholesale short-term cash mandates and internationally sourced funds. However, FirstChoice and Custom Solutions secured positive net flows of $440 million and $317 million respectively. CBA's funds under management ...

Advisers freed from duplicate work

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Wealth Management Solutions, makers of XPLAN 2.0. It sends eApplications directly from the XPLAN desktop to Colonial's FirstChoice Platform. IRESS managing director Andrew Walsh said it previously took about half an hour to re-type each client's application. ...

FirstChoice launches nine new options

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
Colonial First State has added nine new options to its FirstChoice platform giving clients access to emerging markets and global agriculture, property and shares. Alan Kenny, general manager product and investment services for Colonial First State said ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... competition in the future as the superannuation industry moves to improve its practice. In the recent revamp of the flagship FirstChoice Wholesale platform, the unit pricing mechanism was simplified so that customers moving their cash into different ...

CFS slashes entry bar to wholesale platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... told a lunchtime media briefing in Sydney yesterday that from April 11, the minimum amount needed to invest in the FirstChoice Wholesale platform would be reduced from $100,000 to $1500. The 7000-plus advisers who use the platform can then offer FirstChoice ...

YBR launches term deposits

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... said that on-call and term deposit rates were currently 'very attractive to depositors'. According to Rainmaker, AMP, FirstChoice, NAB and TPS all offer a variety of term deposits.

CBA posts $1.6bn quarterly profit

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... over the quarter with $2 billion in net inflows, while funds under management jumped by 4.4 per cent. It added that FirstChoice became the largest platform provider in the market during the quarter after it experienced $513 million in net flows. Meanwhile ...

CommInsure boosts retail life offering

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... super fund to pay for their insurance premiums. As part of a partnership between CommInsure and Colonial First State's FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms, customers will be able to pay for their "Total Care Plan Super" insurance premiums through rolled ...