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Colonial First State hires retail sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
Colonial First State has hired a new head of retail sales from BT Financial Group. Bryce Quirk was most recently BT Financial Group's head of adviser distribution platform where he led a national sales team of more than 45 people and the distribution ...

Aussies instos join fight against weapons

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Australian institutional investors joined a worldwide effort lobbying index providers to remove controversial weapons from global indices. Colonial First State and Vision Super have become signatories to an open letter calling for the exclusion of weapons ...

NSW adviser banned for 25 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
The Federal Court has handed down a 25-year ban to a New South Wales financial adviser and wound up two companies related to him following an ASIC investigation. Starting in 2008, Graeme Walter Miller advised SMSFs and other clients of CFS Private Wealth ...

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Colonial First State has topped up a Morgan Stanley mandate, as it fine-tunes the fixed interest exposures in its employer super's lifestage options. Morgan Stanley's Total Return Strategy is now managing $134 million for the FirstChoice Employer ...

CFS study finds managed accounts improve advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
Financial advisers now have a number for how much more time they can expect to spend with their clients if they switch to managed accounts. A new whitepaper published by Colonial First State this week found advisers using managed accounts were spending ...

CFS swaps global equities managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
Colonial First State has appointed a $600 million mandate as it reviews the manager lineup for its $3.8 billion multi-manager global equities fund. In a change that became active last Friday, Boston-based quant manager Arrowstreet Capital took over ...

CFS retail sales lead joins global boutique

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
The head of retail investment sales at Colonial First State will head the newly-opened Australian office of a global boutique investment manager. Laird Abernethy has been appointed managing director of Australia and New Zealand for GQG Partners. He ...

Superannuation funds ramp up co-investment opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
Australian superannuation funds are actively partnering to seize investment opportunities in infrastructure and real estate compared to global counterparts, new research shows. Preqin's Australian Superannuation Funds in Alternatives report finds ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... billion, Macquarie Group slid from 52nd to the 58th spot on Willis Towers Watson's annual top 500 global asset managers. CFS (US$170bn), which took the 97th spot, moved up the ladder from 102 last year. NAB Asset Management ($US153bn) sat at 110 ...

ALP victory to have meaningful impact: Daintree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
With a Labor victory in next year's Federal Election seemingly firming, a Daintree Capital director is calling on professional investors to prepare for a change in government, and the policies to come with it. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday ...