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Asteron takes on CFS FirstChoice risk offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... advice provider, Asteron, has stepped up its relationship with Colonial First State, partnering with the FirstChoice platform to bring additional insurance options to its advisers. Effective from July 18, Asteron advisers will have access to the investment ...

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. ...

Advisers freed from duplicate work

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... 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 ...

CFS signs distribution deal with Aspect

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... Bissaker, chief executive at Colonial First State, said the firm plans to launch an Aspect Capital fund on the FirstChoice platform and the FirstWrap platform in the first quarter of this year. "We will look to extend this fund across other retail channels ...

Platform money flows back into markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... investment services at Colonial First State, also said money is starting to flow back into markets on the FirstChoice platform. "It's predominantly Australian markets and among that is a mix of active and index strategies, in fact indexing is getting ...

Cuffe joins Centric board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... firm's board. Cuffe is well known for his management roles at Colonial First State where he helped pioneer the FirstChoice platform and, separately, Challenger Financial Services Group. He now works at non-profit group Social Ventures Australia as an ...

FirstChoice platform upgrade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Colonial First State is supercharging its FirstChoice platform with the addition of a government guaranteed cash deposit product, four Realindex RAFI funds and an enhanced range of insurance service. The platform's new FirstRate Saver includes no ongoing ...

CFS eyes fundamental indexing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... be available on FirstChoice. The product will be open to retail investors via financial advisers and the FirstChoice platform from November. CFS also has its sights on the institutional market and will be channeling their product towards insto investors ...

What happened to baby platforms?

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... today's investors. Alan Kenny, general manager of product and investment services at Colonial First State said FirstChoice platform did not aim to provide everything for every investor. "These demarcation lines that other people come up with between ...