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Fourth CFS mandate awarded

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... Australian affiliate, Apostle Asset Management. The global fixed income and currency mandate is an allocation from CFS's FirstChoice multi-manager funds and is the fourth mandate announced this week from the fund. As with the other mandates, it took ...

CFS awards three new alternatives mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Colonial First State has awarded three mandates, totalling $300 million dollars, from its Colonial FirstChoice platform that will form a new alternatives manager allocation strategy. FirstChoice Growth now has an allocation of 3 per cent to alternatives. ...

Ratings round up

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... 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".

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 ...

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 ...