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Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
A liquid alternatives investment manager has added a new chief risk officer, hiring from Challenger. Sydney-based manager Darling Macro has appointed Mark Swan as its new chief risk officer. Swan joins the manager from Challenger, having served as senior ...

Challenger winds up boutique partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
Challenger's Fidante Partners has sold its stake in an event-driven manager that it partnered with in 2018, according to its March quarter update which also shows superannuation funds moving to cash. Fidante has ended its partnership with US-based firm ...

Top picks for dividends during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Management, Inghams and Kogan, will provide reliable income streams. However, UBS thinks consensus DPS is too high for Challenger, SkyCity, Sydney Airport, JB Hi-Fi, Scentre and Vicinity Centres.

Challenger shuffles life portfolio asset allocations

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Challenger Life has tilted its investment portfolio away from equities and sub-investment grade fixed income and towards more liquid assets, as COVID-19 sparks volatility in most asset classes. Challenger Life has slashed equity holdings from 13% of ...

Court confirms Storm Financial founders breached duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... been invested by Storm Financial's clients in Storm Financial-branded index funds, run by Colonial First State and Challenger, among others. The market crashed and, by October 2008, almost $1.5 billion had been lost. Many investors ended up in negative ...

Challenger general manager jumps to boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... hired Rommel Hacopian as a distribution manager, based in its Sydney office. Hacopian has spent nearly two decades at Challenger, and prior to this worked for Citi, Associated Planners and National Mutual. "During his time at Challenger, he helped develop ...

Prodigy folds, two boutiques to shut

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... both of whom had previously worked at Contango. Equus Point Capital was set up by Rob Stewart, formerly of CFSGAM and Challenger and Toby Masters. They ran a market neutral fund benchmarked to cash. It has returned -4.03% so far this financial year ...

FICAP 2020 weeks away

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Tim Sanderson and IOOF head of research and retirement income Matt Olsen. Sponsors for this year's event include Challenger, Colonial First State, Count Charitable Foundation, IOOF, Ironbark, Janus Henderson and MLC Asset Management. The 2020 FICAP ...

Baird exits NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... searches for a permanent replacement. NAB group chief executive Ross McEwan said: "Mike has been a tremendous leader, challenger of convention and staunch advocate for customers in his time at NAB." "He has always spoken up for doing the right thing ...

Fidelity sweeps Morningstar Australia Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... FirstChoice. Hyperion, which lost out to Fidelity in two categories, did have a win. It beat GreenCape Capital (distributed by Challenger's Fidante Partners business) and Platypus Asset Management, to take home the fund manager of the year: domestic ...