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Digital engagement boosts investing demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Investors are increasingly relying on social media platforms and a new generation of brokers to meet online investing demand, a new survey shows. Investment Trends' latest Online Broking Report found investors are turning to blogs and online forums ...

Royal Commission and its one canoe message is on point

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
Challenger chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper said the Royal Commission's outstanding lesson for SMSF advisers is to keep their feet in one canoe. Speaking on the final day of the Self-managed Super Fund Association's national conference in ...

Challenger adds new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Challenger's multi-boutique asset management business has taken a minority stake in a new alternatives manager. Fidante Partners will take over the distribution and marketing of London-based FME Asset Management (Financial Markets Engineering), in line ...

Retirement expert joins Milliman

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... Sydney. Haqqani has spent close to two decades in financial services, of which four years have been at annuities provider Challenger where she was as senior manager of retirement income policy. She was also an adviser to chair of retirement income Jeremy ...

MGP chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... Pillar Administration (now owned by Mercer). His previous experience includes executive and director roles at StatePlus, Challenger, MLC and Grant Thornton. Earlier this year, MGP made several changes to its leadership team, which included two promotions. ...

Challenger boutique appoints chief operating officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
A $10.5 billion boutique in Challenger's multi-affiliate investment arm has appointed a chief operating officer. Tracy Kellett is joining fixed income manager Ardea Investment Management as its first chief operating officer. Kellett is well known ...

Avenir eyes insto investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Avenir Capital is looking to win institutional investors for its 'private equity mindset' approach to equities, after previously running capital raised mostly by word-of-mouth. The fund invests in 18 international stocks, with a longer-term ...

Profit downgrade hurts Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Challenger shares dropped by 17% overnight after recently appointed chief executive Richard Howes flagged a profit downgrade. Challenger's share price plunged from $9.23 to about $7.65 on the back of lower-than-expected December 2018 half-year results. ...

Global multi-boutique eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
A $45 billion multi-boutique founded by a former Natixis deputy chief executive is heading down under to win super fund mandates and to potentially buy Australian boutiques. iM Global Partner takes minority, non-controlling stakes in small asset managers ...

Investors rage coup against Aurora

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... to boot Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity. However, Aurora contests the validity of this vote. The challenger is Primary Securities, backed by some investors of the fund (ASX: ABW) that hold a share greater than 5%. At a meeting convened ...