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Challenger to create national network of financial planners

Challenger Financial Services Group plans to pay the equivalent of about $100 million in a share swap with Associated Planners Group to create a national network of some 450 financial planners that will include its Garrisons Financial Planning arm. ...

Challenger to acquire Associated Planners Group

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group looks set to acquire Associated Planners Group, to create one of the largest financial planning businesses in Australia. The company said it had entered into a merger implementation agreement with Associated Planners. ...

Challenger sells $71 million forestry assets to Great Southern

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group today announced it had entered into an arrangement with Great Southern Plantations (GSP) for the rights and obligations to acquire approximately 84,000 hectares of forestry assets. Under the terms of the arrangement ...

Challenger says divests non core property assets

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
Diversified financial services company Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd said today it has entered into unconditional contracts for the sale of 11 properties to Cromwell Corporation Ltd for $152 million. Challenger said this is an increase of ...

Perpetual wins fund manager award

... international category was awarded to MLC. The international equities fund manager for 2003 was Platinum Asset Management while Challenger was awarded the Australian equities small companies fund and Zurich took the award for listed property manager. ...

Rising dollar, interest rates good for Challenger profit

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group said today that it was a very different company to the one that existed nine months ago after reporting a pro-forma net profit of $33 million for the first half. Challenger reported a net profit for the six months ...

AMP shares surge on speculation of takeover interest

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2004
... ambitions of a possible takeover have disappeared. There are rumours that St George or Westpac, or even as a wild card Challenger Bank are having a look at taking it over, he said.

Challenger to sell corporate super arm

Challenger Financial Services Group has put its corporate superannuation administration business up for sale, including its $253 million Corporate Superannuation Plan, saying the business is no longer viewed as a core function for the group. The trust ...

Mariner appoints new CFO

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2004
Mariner Financial, the retirement income group led by former Challenger boss Bill Ireland, has appointed Joseph Prsa as its new chief financial officer. Mr Prsa was most recently CFO at Lumley Life, and joins Mariner this week after 16 years in the ...

Macquarie senior staff resign to take up positions elsewhere

... when former Colonial First State employees working under Chris Cuffe suddenly turned up under Mr Cuffe's new mantle at Challenger Financial Group, two of these employees have defected to join former head of MFM, David Deverall, at Perpetual Trustees. ...