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Former Securitor manager joins Paragem

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Securitor, Kouimanis worked as a financial planning manager at the Commonwealth Bank, and also spent several years with Colonial First State as a business development manager.

New head of wholesale at Fidelity

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... landscape and grow our business into the future as we continue to build our offering." Glazier has previously worked as Colonial First State's state manager for retail sales in New South Wales. He had also worked at Perpetual Investments, Lion Nathan ...

Industry split over super fee hike

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... looking to shift blame onto important consumer protections for this added fee." A fee of this sort is not new. In 2018 Colonial First State introduced a 'regulatory reform fee' that amounted to an additional $102.50 per year for some members ...

Former CFS GAM head in new venture

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
The former Colonial First State Global Asset Management head of responsible investment is gearing up to launch a new sustainable investing solution. Pablo Berrutti is launching Altiorem, a registered charity which will act as an online library and resource ...

Boutique shuts doors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... Credit Suisse First Boston. Bendeich was the chief investment officer and portfolio manager of the boutique. He worked at Colonial First State before UBS. The two also hired former UBS colleague Michael Vidler to join them as a senior investment analyst ...

Class action accuses CFS of dodgy insurance fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
Shine Lawyers today filed a class action against Colonial First State alleging that hundreds of thousands of Australians were charged excessive insurance premiums. The action alleges CFS, as Commonwealth Bank's superannuation provider, put members into ...

Vanguard firms up super team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... joins from Mercer, where he was principal - insurance leader for just under a year. Caldow spent more than a decade at Colonial First State in executive manager roles. His appointment comes after Vanguard announced it had appointed Michael Lovett to ...

Wealth giants shrink advertising budgets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... cut back on their advertising spends over the past five years, documents from the Standing Committee on Economics show. Colonial First State, which is currently facing two class actions, spent only $1.68 million on its campaigns for FY18/19, down significantly ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... markets and some fortunate timing propelled funds with additional financial exposure to the top of the performance tables. Colonial First State options took out the first eight positions in the top 10, with the wealth manager's FirstChoice Wholesale ...

Industry funds dominate satisfaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... respectively. This was followed by First State Super (70.3%), HESTA (70.2%), CareSuper (67.6%), AustralianSuper (67.3%), Colonial First State (65.1%), Mercer (64.7%) and Hostplus (63.2%). "Consumers are continuing to be more satisfied with industry funds ...