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Colonial First State completes group insurance review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... mandate with AIA. Under the renewed agreement, AIA will continue to provide insurance cover for the 200,000 CFS FirstChoice Employer Super, Essential Super, and FirstChoice Wholesale Personal members. AIA has served as group insurer since it took over ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... fund manager, asset allocation, and fee changes to two of its FirstChoice products from November 16. For FirstChoice Employer Super, Platypus Australian Equities will take over as investment manager of the Ausbil Australian Equity (formerly T. Rowe Price ...

Colonial First State reports strong super returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... State (CFS) has posted double digit returns for its MySuper balanced and growth funds during FY24. CFS's FirstChoice Employer Super balanced fund (MySuper Lifestage 1965-69) achieved a 12.1% return, while its FirstChoice Employer Super growth fund (MySuper ...

Best default super funds revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... managed by Colonial First State (CFS) for its investment schemes, saw a return of 11.5%. Notably, CFS' FirstChoice Employer lifecycle product matched this return over the same timeframe. Continuing the pattern of retail fund supremacy in the performance ...

Colonial First State chalks up strong super returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
... has recorded double-digit returns across several of its default superannuation products for FY23. The CFS FirstChoice Employer Super growth fund (Lifestage 1975-1979) delivered a 12.2% return. The CFS FirstChoice Employer Super balanced fund (Lifestage ...

CFS settles super fees class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... approval, was negotiated on behalf of members of CFS FirstChoice Personal Super, FirstChoice Pension and FirstChoice Employer Super whose accounts were opened before 11 June 2013 and remained members after 1 July 2013, and after 1 July 2013 were charged ...

Super heatmap findings garner mixed responses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... received a significantly poor performance rating were EISS Super's MySuper option, Colonial First State FirstChoice Employer Super, BT Super MySuper, Westpac Group Plan MySuper, Commonwealth Essential Super and AMG MySuper. "MySuper options are supposed ...

MySuper heatmap reveals sub-par products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
... significantly poor performance in relation to the benchmark. EISS Super's MySuper option, Colonial First State FirstChoice Employer Super, BT Super MySuper, Westpac Group Plan MySuper, Commonwealth Essential Super and AMG MySuper received a significantly ...

MySuper heatmap offers few surprises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... 0.5% when these two numbers are added, it fails the test. Of those that did fail, Colonial First State's FirstChoice Employer Super came the closest to passing with a score of 0.60%. Of those that passed, TWUSUPER (-0.47%), Westpac Group Plan MySuper ...

Colonial First State seeks MySuper redemption

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... strategies across its two MySuper funds. BlackRock won the mandate to provide investment services to CFS' FirstChoice Employer Super (FCES) and Commonwealth Essential Super (CES) following a formal tender process. CFS will continue to set the investment ...