Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 591 - 600 of 1619 results for "Colonial"

Former UBS multi-asset expert joins boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Australian Investment Committee. Prior to UBS, McNaughton was an investment specialist of fixed interest, credit and cast at Colonial First State Global Asset Management for four years. She was fixed income specialist at Scottish investment management ...

CBA sells CFSGAM, new wealth business chief executive appointed

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is selling Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) to a Japanese buyer. The bank has entered into an agreement with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) to sell the business for $4.13 billion for a total ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
Macquarie Group slipped down the ranks of the world's top fund managers, while Colonial First State gained momentum, a Willis Towers Watson compilation shows. Despite increasing its assets under management to US$369 billion, Macquarie Group slid from ...

Tobacco-free portfolios divide investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... mandates for internally managed investments, saying customers demand sustainable investing that aligns with their values. Colonial First State also moved to offload all tobacco-related investments by 2020, while AMP Capital is one of the fund managers ...

Australian Unity adds new research lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... Carnevale said. Australian Unity also recently appointed a new head of technical services in Yvonne Chu. She joins from Colonial First State's technical team which she was a part of for 11 years and led the FirstTech division. Chu replaces Craig ...

CFS strikes strategic distribution deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Colonial First State entered a strategic alliance with a global investment manager that will see Australian investors gain access to a new global equities fund. CFS is partnering with Baillie Gifford to distribute the Baillie Gifford Long Term Global ...

Perpetual distribution lead departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... commenced in 2012 as head of wholesale. He has also previously held roles with NAB Asset Management, Count Financial and Colonial First State. Thompson will commence in the new role in early 2019. "We are delighted to welcome Matt to our already established ...

Colonial First State to cut tobacco by 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
Colonial First State has vouched to offload all its tobacco-related investments by 2020, as it signs on to the UN-endorsed Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge. CFS currently has less than 1% of total assets in tobacco-related investments but declined to disclose ...

CFS technical expert moves to Australian Unity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
A long-serving Colonial First State technical expert is moving to Australian Unity. Australian Unity's advice arm appointed Yvonne Chu as its head of technical services. Chu spent more than 11 years at CFS, starting as a technical manager before ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... conduct that fell below community standards after hearing "troubling" evidence from various case studies. CommInsure and Colonial Mutual Life Assurance (CMLA) executive general manager Helen Troup accepted CBA misled the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ...