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Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
The Future Fund has signed up Vanguard, State Street, CFS GAM and QIC as its debut investment managers, but there's more to come as the fund strives to become the country's "leading institutional investor". Speaking at the 2008 Asset Allocation Summit ...

Diversity pays in wealth management: CBA

... during the period. However, the wealth management business, which consists of the managed funds arm Colonial First State (CFS), CFS Global Asset Management and insurance group CommInsure, continued to attract fund inflows despite the market rout. Total ...

CFS engages Innovest for ESG research

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has recruited the services of third party research providers, Innovest Strategic Value Advisers, in the next phase of its ongoing integration of environment, social and governance (ESG) risk assessment ...

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... conditions as a much needed correction of credit imbalances gathering momentum in the last few years. Colonial First State's (CFS) head of investment markets research, Hans Kunnen, said that the fund manager did not suffer any major losses from the sub-prime ...

Pure infrastructure a safe haven: CFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Pure infrastructure is potentially the safe haven for Australian investors seeking to insulate themselves from volatile markets, according to Hans Kunnen, head of investment markets research at Colonial First State. "The classic safe havens will be ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
Colonial First State has embarked on the next phase of its specialist distribution strategy, recently announcing a staff boost to its distribution team. "About year ago, we agreed to implement a specialist distribution approach to our business. As products ...

SimCorp expands implementation team

SimCorp Asia has appointed Chitra Shanker as project manager and Jamie Fenchel as senior business consultant to the implementation team for its new front-office trading system, Order Management3. Shanker has over 14 years of industry experience, most ...

The new government: what it means

... new marginal rates of 15, 30 and 40 per cent with the effective tax free threshold rising from $11,000 to $16,000. In super, CFS expects businesses will have an option to make super guarantee payments into a central "Superannuation Clearing House", to ...

Super switchers fall

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... products switched went through planners aligned with the six largest financial planning groups, including AMP, AXA, ING/ANZ, CBA/CFS, NAB/MLC and Westpac/BT. While the number of planners who recommended their own products decreased slightly for some ...

CFS GAM appoints alpha execs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Colonial First State Global Asset Management has expanded its Alpha Strategies team, appointing Leah Kelly to senior investment analyst and Ondre Ozer to investment analyst. Prior to this appointment, Kelly worked in portfolio construction and management ...