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Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... may adversely Suncorp who is negotiating reinsurance in June. Property exposures from Astro Japan Property Trust and Challenger may also suffer along with some Platinum funds overweight in Japan equities.

BTIM adds portfolio manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... as portfolio manager and credit analyst for BTIM's income and fixed income boutique, headed by Vimal Gor. The former Challenger Financial Services portfolio manager and credit analyst will be the primary analyst on the financials, infrastructure and ...

RockStar charity raises $120k

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... be this year's industry 'RockStar' while raising funds for charity. This year's winner was Olivia Khosrobakshi from Challenger, who beat 14 other performers and serenaded the crowd with a killer version of the Katy Perry classic, 'I Kissed a Girl'. Kate ...

Asia specialists join Premium China

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... Asia income specialist with over eight years experience in finance and fund management. She has previously worked for Challenger First Pacific, Bell Potter Securities and HFA Asset Management. George Fattal, once a financial planner at Westpac and development ...

Alphinity grows new business

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
New funds management firm Alphinity Investment Management has enjoyed a flying start after taking over two Challenger products late last year. The Alphinity Concentrated Australian Share Fund, formerly known as the Challenger Select Australian Share ...

Challenger boutiques and annuities enjoy strong half year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Challenger has upgraded its growth targets for its funds management and life sales business after posting record returns this morning. In the group's half yearly 2011 results, Challenger's total assets under management rose 8 per cent to $25.8 billion ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... issuing annuities but I think they have to do their risk management a bit better." Richard Howes, chief executive of Challenger Life, said there is a perfectly adequate global market for insuring against annuities with a diverse portfolio and that demand ...

Former Amundi CEO joins Apostle

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... Management Australia. Meanwhile, Apostle also appointed Nicole Krebs as client service manager. She was most recently with Challenger and UBS Asset Management. Apostle Asset Management provides investment related services to Australian and New Zealand ...

The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... role. S&P said the boutique phenomenon locally, which has seen the likes of Ascalon, nabInvest, Treasury Group and Challenger establish themselves as viable incubation businesses, providing institutional support for separately branded, part employee ...

Unitholders approve Challenger mortgage fund restructure

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund's 80,000 unitholders have overwhelmingly supported proposals to restructure the fund, the company said in a statement today. Challenger said that 94 per cent of retail investors and 100 per cent of wholesale investors ...