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Industry fund awards $60m small caps mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
A boutique founded by former the small caps team at UBS Asset Management has won a $60 million mandate from a $5.4 billion industry fund. TWUSUPER has selected Eiger Capital for the equities allocation. "This mandate furthers TWUSUPER's plan to ...

Challenger wins $200m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
Challenger has scored a $200 million mandate in indexed global equities from an industry fund. Local Government Super, which manages $12 billion in retirement savings for current and former New South Wales government employees, picked Challenger for ...

Cbus appoints three investment heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... for four years. Prior to this, he was a property director at the Future Fund for five years, and has also worked at Challenger and HSBC. The fund has appointed James Crawford its head of equity portfolio construction. Crawford has worked at First Sentier ...

Challenger on track to performance target

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... basis, NPAT dropped by 29% to $136.8 million while normalised net profit before tax came down 30% to $196 million. Challenger chief executive Richard Howes said the performance is in line with guidance to deliver full-year normalised NPAT between $390 ...

Longstanding Challenger exec in new role

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
Challenger's executive director, real estate investments has taken on a new role with a fund manager. Chris Pak has joined EG as divisional director of business development after over seven years in his previous role and a further seven as general manager ...

What to expect from February reporting season

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... earnings while only 10% saw a downside skew risk to earnings. Many financials will start reporting next week, with Challenger and Macquarie slated for Feb 9, Commonwealth Bank for the February 10 and AMP, ASX and Magellan for February 11. Financial stocks' ...

Gender diversity has a way to go: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... companies that disclosed data. From financial services, companies that made the index include Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Challenger, National Australia Bank and QBE Insurance. Other companies include Nine Entertainment, Scentre Group, Incitec Pivot ...

Aura hires executive from Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
Aura Funds Management has appointed a former Challenger executive to lead its property credit fund. Shaun Fernando is a new director and portfolio manager for the firm's real estate credit strategy in Australia and is based in Sydney. Fernando was an ...

Barrenjoey hires from Ord Minnett

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... 4.99% voting interest and a board position, while Barclays has a 4.99% voting interest. Its co-founders include former Challenger chief executive Brian Benari, former UBS chair Guy Fowler, former UBS investment bankers Matt Hanning and Chris Williams ...

Challenger welcomes board director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... director-general in the Office of National Assessments and worked at the Australian Treasury and at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Challenger chair Peter Polson said he is pleased to welcome Smith to the board. "She has performed at the highest level ...