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mFund doubles size in 6 months

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... ASX's mFund platform doubled its funds under management in the last six months and has just added a fixed income high yield fund. Bentham Asset Management High Yield Fund is the latest addition to mFund Settlement Service. The platform has now 95 funds ...

Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... under management fell by $200 million to $10.7 billion. Challenger put this down to maturity of the $300 million High Yield Fund annuity, which was partly offset by retail annuity net book growth of $200 million. Challenger chief executive Brian Benari ...

AllianceBernstein targets retirees with high yield fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
AllianceBernstein has launched a Global High Income Fund aimed at annuity investors seeking to diversify and gain access to a higher level of income. AllianceBernstein senior portfolio manager Jeremy Cunningham noted that annuity and term-deposit rates ...

Annuity sales reinforce solid Challenger result

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... since 2004. Growth of 8% has been targeted for 2014, excluding expected maturities relating to the Challenger High Yield Fund annuities. Challenger's funds management business also had a strong year, with net flows increasing by 65% to $7.0 billion driving ...

Provident Capital reaffirms solvency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... concerned, which relates to the SQM report, there is no impairment on any assets within the monthly income fund or the high yield fund and I think that's an important point," he told Financial Standard yesterday. "SQM withdrew their ratings because of ...

Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... Loan Fund, which invests in global non-investment grade senior secured syndicated loans and the third, Bentham High Yield Fund, specialising in global high yield bond markets. The latest edition of Raimaker's Mandate Chaser Report shows that AustralianSuper ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... numbers of self-managed super funds. Vanguard released three new ETFs yesterday. The Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield fund that follows the benchmark FTSE ASFA Australia High Dividend Yield Index of 63 stocks. It has yearly management costs of 0.25 ...

Challenger boosted by life sales

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Life retail sales for the quarter were $740 million, including the impact from the conversion of Challenger's high yield fund in February. Retail sales were up 49 per cent on the previous quarter, excluding the fund conversion. Challenger said that overall ...

Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Loan Fund, which invests in global, non-investment grade senior secured syndicated loans, and Bentham Wholesale High Yield Fund, which specialises in global high yield bond markets. According to a statement from Challenger, all three funds returned more ...

Austock hires insto sales manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... maintain a strong cash position. This follows after the group's asset management division was forced to close the High Yield fund following a rise in redemption requests from investors. The fund was later sold.