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Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... (up 34%), MFS Investment Management (30.9%), National Australia Bank / MLC (24.5%), Commonwealth / Colonial (21.6%), Challenger (20.1%), Franklin Templeton Investments (19.7%), Perpetual (17.6%) and Vanguard Investments (14%) all reported double digit ...

Five Oceans to be disbanded

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... Asset Management is set to close after more than eight years in business. Principals from the group, which sits under Challenger's boutique funds management business, have written to clients to inform them that the business will be closed because sufficient ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
Challenger's Jeremy Cooper talks to FS Super associate editor James Fernyhough about retirement income, challenging some widely-held beliefs about the drawdown phase of superannuation. As one-time chair of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper knows Australia's ...

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
Challenger's multi-boutique funds management business, Fidante Partners, has appointed a senior business development manager from Morgan Stanley. Investment banker Gabrielle Munzer was most recently an executive director, global capital markets at Morgan ...

netwealth appoints head of investment and research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
netwealth has appointed Challenger national key account manager to the role of head of investment management and research The company made the announcement that Paul O'Connor would take up the position on May 19 during its yearly update yesterday. O'Connor ...

Challenger backs $4bn global infrastructure business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
Challenger and Access Capital Advisers (ACA) are set to merge their infrastructure investment operations into a $4 billion boutique infrastructure business called Whitehelm Capital. The new business will start operating on July 1, 2014, with 48 employees ...

Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Challenger has continued to grow its lifetime annuities business, with sales more than doubling in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the prior corresponding period (PCP). Overall, Challenger Life's annuity sales - including lifetime and fixed annuities ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove regulatory impediments to the development of products such as deferred lifetime annuities. ...

Challenger launches CDI takeover bid

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Challenger Life has made an off-market bid to become the sole owner of Challenger Diversified Property Group (CDI). Challenger Life currently owns almost 60% of CDI. It has offered to buy all remaining units at a price of $2.74 a unit, almost a 5% premium ...

FICAP RockStar of the year crowned

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... artist went to Fidelity's Dinah Sutton for her version of Madonna's Like a Prayer. FICAP's sponsors are: Platinum - ANZ, Challenger, Colonial First State, Perpetual. Gold - Aberdeen, Ausbil, Bennelong, BT Financial Group, BT Investment Management, Capital ...