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MySuper heatmap reveals sub-par products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
... products that had significantly poor performance in relation to the benchmark. EISS Super's MySuper option, Colonial First State FirstChoice Employer Super, BT Super MySuper, Westpac Group Plan MySuper, Commonwealth Essential Super and AMG MySuper ...

Aware Super hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... Nomura, where she was head of credit desk analysts. She has also held roles with UBS Global Asset Management, Colonial First State Investments and Westpac. "With over 20 years of global investment management experiences, Sonia joins us with a proven ...

BT head joins Colonial First State

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) has expanded its leadership team, hiring Chris Mather as its new executive director of new business. CFS group executive of distribution Bryce Quirk said: "Chris is an accomplished financial services executive and senior leader ...

Colonial First State adds 17 new funds to FirstChoice platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) has significantly expanded its FirstChoice menu, adding a range of ETF exposures, fixed interest, and sustainability strategies. Following the addition of the 17 new funds, the FirstChoice platform has reached the largest ...

Colonial First State debuts 'major wealth platform innovation'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) has unveiled its new CFS Edge wrap platform, calling it the first major Australian wealth platform market innovation in the last decade. At a platform preview in Sydney last night, CFS chief executive, superannuation Kelly ...

Iress unveils Connectivity Network

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... execution, and client maintenance, as well as reporting by financial advisers, licensees, and their support teams. Colonial First State (CFS) and MetLife Australia have signed Memorandums of Understanding in which they agree to collaborate with Iress ...

Colonial First State launches sustainable growth fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
Colonial First State (CFS) says its new sustainable growth fund has been designed to remove barriers to investing sustainably. The product, Thrive+, was developed after CFS commissioned a study of nearly 5000 Australians and found that of the respondents ...

Local wholesale lead appointed by Columbia Threadneedle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
... key accounts at First Sentier which he held for nearly three years, as well as a further two years under Colonial First State Global Asset Management. He held a range of other roles at Colonial First State and also worked in business development for ...

Super heads support capping retirement balances

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... David Bryant, AustralianSuper chief executive Paul Schroder, Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart, and Colonial First State Super chief executive Kelly Power. While Stewart prefaced that the objective of super must first be established before a ...

Rest revamps equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
... subsidiary. Before joining Rest, Bluzmanis spent nearly five years as a portfolio manager at BT and 10 years at Colonial First State as a senior investment manager. The evolution of the portfolio approach began three years ago when Rest's wholly ...