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Industry funds feast, retail funds snack, corporate funds freefall

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... payments rising to $57.6 billion. Separately, over the year to March 31, the best-performing default investment options were Colonial First State's Essential Super Employer - Lifestage (1980-1984) and FirstChoice Employer - FirstChoice Lifestage (1980-1984) ...

CFS awards global equities mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) has awarded a global equities mandate to a US$160 billion fund manager. US fund manager Brown Advisory has won the mandate to oversee the global equities strategy available on FirstChoice, debuting on May 24. The option - ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... a risk. Reducing it further will not spark a fresh outbreak of inflation as some have wrongly suggested." Meanwhile, Colonial First State's (CFS) survey of 2250 Australians found one in five (20%) want to break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck. ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... according to Rainmaker Information. Over the past three years to March 31, six default lifecycle investment options from Colonial First State, Team Super, Virgin Money, TelstraSuper, and Aware Super, ranked among the top 10 performing MySuper options ...

Bell Asset Management names head of retail sales

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... recently head of distribution at Allianz Retire+, and has held various executive roles across AUSIEX, Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State and Asgard, bringing deep expertise in retail distribution and adviser engagement. Bell AM chief executive Michael ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) managed the two best-performing MySuper options over the year to March 31. The wealth management and superannuation provider's head of equities Ben Lam explains the "art and science" behind its recently evolved manager ...

CFS allots Martin Currie two mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) has mandated Martin Currie to oversee two options in its multi-manager single-sector strategy. Martin Currie is now looking after the CFS Australian Share and CFS Geared Australian Share options, replacing Longreach CAI and ...

Longreach poaches CFS wealth director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Longreach Alternatives has hired Katerina Skulskaya, a former director at Colonial First State Investments, to strengthen its fundraising efforts. Based in Brisbane, Skulskaya will cover private wealth and family office clients for Longreach Capital ...

Industry veteran joins Aus Ethical

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... Bissaker brings over three decades in financial services and consulting with previous roles including chief executive of Colonial First State, Virgin Money and Bank of Queensland. "Brian is a seasoned financial services executive and highly experienced ...

Mantis to distribute new micro cap offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... Balmoral Investors, which launched in August 2024, comprises Wik Farwerck and Tim Canham, former portfolio managers at Colonial First State Global Asset Management and First Sentier. Mantis Funds head of distribution Damien Hatfield said the deal was ...