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CFS reduces premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... State is reducing insurance premiums in its super funds, in a move that should benefit 220,000 members. Members of FirstChoice Employer Super, Essential Super, FirstChoice Personal and FirstChoice Wholesale Personal super products will all see their ...

Colonial First State faces penalties for MySuper conduct

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
The Federal Court has found Colonial First State misled members of its FirstChoice Fund on at least 12,978 occasions over nearly two years in relation to switching to its MySuper product. The court found CFS's communication (via letters and calls) ...

MySuper continues stellar performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
... Essential Super is best-performing lifecycle MySuper product across the most age cohorts, followed by Mine Super, CFS FirstChoice Employer and Telstra Super. Rainmaker's Retail MySuper Index has again outperformed the Not-for-Profit MySuper Index by ...

YFYS test results not a fair representation: Frontier

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... Fund's LifeTime One, AvSuper Growth, BOC MySuper, Christian Super's My Ethical Super, Colonial First State's FirstChoice, Commonwealth Bank Group Super's Accumulate Plus Balanced, EISS Balanced, LUCRF Super's MySuper, Maritime Super's ...

CFS drops admin fees on FirstChoice Employer Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Colonial First State yesterday said it will drop the administration fees on its FirstChoice Employer Super products from, ahead of the Your Future, Your Super test results today. Effective October, CFS will charge FirstChoice Employer customers 30bps ...

Results out: 13 funds fail YFYS performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Big names like Colonial First State's FirstChoice, BT Super and Christian Super are among the 13 superannuation funds that failed APRA's inaugural performance test. In all, APRA tested 76 MySuper products in this round, of which 13 failed. This ...

Retail funds to benefit from YFYS test changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... Trust general division and Asgard employee MySuper ((15bps improvement each), Prime Super and Colonial First State FirstChoice Superannuation Trust (14bps imporvement each) and AMG Super (10bps). Funds whose MySuper products will see less than 10bps ...

Retail fund tops MySuper tables for FY21

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... Super - High Growth (26.1%). It figures in top-10 for longer horizons of up to 10 years. Capping of the top-three was FirstChoice Employer -- Lifestage (1980-1984) with 25.7% for the12 months. On three-year horizons, the top-three performers are GuildSuper ...

Yarra Capital appoints managing director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... operations functions. Since 2017, Eason was also a director of Colonial First State Investments Limited, the issuer of CFS' FirstChoice range of products. Eason also had a long career at Goldman Sachs where he was a managing director and co-head of the ...

Plato wins $3.9bn mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... fund since 2010, a retail fund recently allocated $3.9 billion to Plato Investment Management. Colonial First State FirstChoice Lifestage made the allocation to the Sydney boutique in March, with the amount totalling $3.9 billion at June end. Plato replaced ...