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AXA Asia Pac growth mixed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... It will also write off around $150 million for the year including $30 million on the sale of its annuity business to Challenger, $20 million provision for the acquisition of Genesys and a $10 million charge for the business restructure in Australia and ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... have witnessed a spike in withdrawals. To date four of the country's top ten mortgage fund providers - Perpetual, AXA, Challenger and AUI - have all either suspended applications or redemptions for their mortgage or income funds, freezing more than $6 ...

Three funds top Lonsec Ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... 2008, with investment personnel waving goodbye to their positions at ING, AMP, Deutsche/Aberdeen, Colonial First State, Challenger and Goldman Sachs JBWere. "Staff turnover is less prevalent in boutique managers because they have equity participation ...

Challenger squeezes redemptions

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Challenger has tightened the redemption policies of its Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund and other mortgage products following significant increases in fund outflows. Challenger's investors have been retrieving their investments following the Federal ...

WW names top fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... Queensland Investment Corporation at 157, followed by Westpac, Perpetual, Suncorp Metway, Perennial Investment and Challenger Financial. Total assets under management by Australian managers surveyed were more than $990 billion, an increase of roughly ...

Retail fund FUM drops $12bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... 14.5 per cent over the year to $95.5 billion - spurred by the growing demand from transition to retirement products. Challenger posted a 65.6 per cent rise in retirement income funds to $4.2 million, while Macquarie reported a 34.6 per cent increase ...

Challenger FM down, CEO says goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
Challenger Financial Services Group chief executive Mike Tilley is stepping down just as the group announced today that its funds under management dropped 19 per cent in the last financial year. According to a statement on the Australian Securities ...

Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
Challenger has snapped up 30 per cent of a soon to be launched fixed interest boutique headed by former head of fixed interest at Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia, Ben Alexander. Challenger will buy one third of the new boutique, expected to ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... and volatile trading of the funds offered by groups such as Macquarie Group, Babcock & Brown, Allco Finance Group and Challenger made them unattractive. They said they would prefer to invest offshore or bid for assets directly, rather than invest in ...

Third Link signs key fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... a new firm launched three months ago by Chris Cuffe, formerly chief executive at Colonial First State and later, at Challenger. At the time of the launch, Cuffe said Third Link is the first not-for-profit managed fund in Australia and is designed to ...