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Insurance, retirement product excellence recognised

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
TAL, Generation Life, MLC Life and Challenger were among the winners at last night's annual Plan For Life Excellence Awards in Sydney. Now in their ninth year, the awards aim to celebrate achievements in product design and innovation across life ...

Challenger launches new alternatives fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
Challenger has launched the Challenger Solutions Liquid Alternatives Balanced Fund, seeking to deliver positive absolute returns in excess of the cash rate, regardless of the market environment. The fund is managed by Challenger's newly formed Solutions ...

Retirees are silent casualties of inflation: Challenger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... retirees than ever, necessitating the development of new approaches to manage retirement income threats, according to a Challenger report. With retirees now living for about twice as long post-retirement, compared to the last major inflation crisis in ...

Apollo Global Management names Australia head

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... private funds group Australia and New Zealand at Credit Suisse. He has also spent time in a variety of executive roles at Challenger, Perpetual Funds Management and Macquarie Bank. In his new role at Apollo, Perrignon will be focused on partnering with ...

Fidante revamps brand, online offering

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... user-friendly experience, it said, and will now include greater content, comparison tools, and interactive charts. The Challenger subsidiary also completed the move to a new registry service provider, Boardroom Group, which offers improved systems, flexibility ...

Challenger offloads banking business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
Just two years after acquiring it, Challenger will sell its banking operations to New Zealand's Heartland Group. Challenger spent $35 million to buy the banking business from Catholic Super in December 2020. The aim was to reach a wider range of customers ...

Revolution AM adds to board

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... financial officer at Lendi. She has also held senior executive roles at Australian Credit and Finance, Click Loans, and Challenger. An experienced board member, Hartley has spent time in executive director, non-executive director and advisory roles for ...

Cultiv8, Fidante launch agriculture, food tech fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... seed to series B investments in Australian and global Agri-Food Technology companies. Fidante's parent company Challenger is the cornerstone investor in the first raise. The fund's portfolio will be jointly managed by Jonathon Quigley and Malcolm ...

HarbourVest Partners opens doors to Sydney office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2022
HarbourVest Partners has opened a Sydney office, to be led by a former Challenger and AMP Capital executive. The private markets specialist firm has been working with institutional and private wealth clients in Australia for more than three decades ...

Challenger offers new fixed term annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
Challenger has launched a new guaranteed fixed three-year term annuity at 4.4% per annum. It said investors who choose to receive all their capital back at the end of the term will receive guaranteed annual payments over the period. The investment manager ...